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Top 300 Roald Dahl Quotes (2025 Update)

Roald Dahl Quote: “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

1. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

2. “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

3. “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

Featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

4. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Imagination Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “Life is more fun if you play games.”

5. “Life is more fun if you play games.”

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Happy Quotes, Fun Quotes, Weekend Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

6. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.”

7. “Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.”

Featured in: Sweet Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “She believed she could so she did.”

8. “She believed she could so she did.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

9. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Learning Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Book Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

10. “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Silly Quotes, Witty Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”

11. “Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

12. “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”

13. “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”

Featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Creative Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.”

14. “I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.”

Featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Virtue Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

15. “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

Featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Soulmate Quotes, Falling in Love Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “A little magic can take you a long way.”

16. “A little magic can take you a long way.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “If you are good, life is good.”

17. “If you are good, life is good.”

Featured in: Cheer Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “Good writing is essentially rewriting.”

18. “Good writing is essentially rewriting.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven’t met...”

19. “There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven’t met...”

Featured in: Friendship Quotes, Funny Friendship Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

20. “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

Featured in: Worry Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.”

21. “We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

22. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, You Are Amazing Quotes, Happy Monday Quotes, Funny Inspirational Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.”

23. “A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.”

24. “The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

25. “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

Featured in: Strong Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”

26. “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”

Featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Funny Birthday Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.”

27. “Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.”

28. “I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

29. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Book Quotes, Teaching Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.”

30. “When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “Don’t gobblefunk around with words.”

31. “Don’t gobblefunk around with words.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”

32. “I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”

Featured in: Quotes About Writing, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes, Hate Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”

33. “If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.”

34. “You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “I’m wondering what to read next.”

35. “I’m wondering what to read next.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

36. “I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”

37. “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”

38. “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “It is most unlikely. But – here comes the big “but” – not impossible.”

39. “It is most unlikely. But – here comes the big “but” – not impossible.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.”

40. “If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.”

Featured in: Book Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”

41. “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”

42. “The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”

Featured in: Book Quotes

Roald Dahl Quote: “The secret of life’, he said, ‘is to become very very good at somethin’ that’s very very ’ard to do.”

43. “The secret of life’, he said, ‘is to become very very good at somethin’ that’s very very ’ard to do.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.”

44. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.”

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

45. “Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”

46. “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”

Featured in: Quotes About Childhood

Roald Dahl Quote: “You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”

47. “You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”

Roald Dahl Quote: “No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.”

48. “No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.”

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Roald Dahl Quote: “When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants – and DESERVES – is a parent who is SPARKY!”

49. “When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants – and DESERVES – is a parent who is SPARKY!”

Roald Dahl Quote: “The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.”

50. “The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.”

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