Roald Dahl The Bfg Quotes & Sayings

Above all, if we'd only acknowledge that all of us are mistaken from time to time, then we'd be more willing to forgive others in the hopes they will extend the same measure of charity to us. — Jonathan V. Last

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles. — Roald Dahl

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time. — Scott Adams

loading the dreams, the BFG and Sophie disappeared over the mountains on — Roald Dahl

But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it. — Roald Dahl

What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly. — Roald Dahl

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. — Roald Dahl

I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name? — Roald Dahl

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning. — Roald Dahl

Books by Roald Dahl The BFG Boy: Tales of Childhood Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny the Champion of the World Dirty Beasts The Enormous Crocodile Esio Trot Fantastic Mr. Fox George's Marvelous Medicine The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Going Solo James and the Giant Peach The Magic Finger Matilda The Minpins The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes Skin and Other Stories The Twits The Umbrella Man and Other Stories The Vicar of Nibbleswicke The Witches The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More — Roald Dahl

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist. — Roald Dahl

I is not understanding human beans at all,' the BFG said. 'You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?' 'Right,' Sophie said. 'But human beans is squishing each other all the time,' the BFG said. 'They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.' He was right. Of course he was right and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants. — Roald Dahl

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. — Richard Donner

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places. — Frank Lampard

We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of the world. Without a fresh virginity of mind, without a new and healthy awareness of existential reality, there can be no theatre and no art either; the real must be in a way dislocated, before it can be re-integrated. — Eugene Ionesco

Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind. — Roald Dahl

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. — Roald Dahl

There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG. — Roald Dahl

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity. — Rebecca Miller

We don't come here for our health. — Prince Philip

A gynecologist is the dentist for the downstairs mouth. — Daniel Tosh

The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,' the BFG said. — Roald Dahl

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans? — Roald Dahl

Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said. — Roald Dahl