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Roald Dahl [ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl] war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Er schrieb Romane und Kurzgeschichten, denen ein feiner schwarzer Humor zugrunde liegt und die oft überraschend enden. Bekannt ist er sowohl für seine Kinderbücher als auch für Werke, die eher dem Genre schwarzer bzw. makabrer Humor zuzuordnen sind.

✵ 13. September 1916 – 23. November 1990
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Roald Dahl Berühmte Zitate

„Beobachten Sie vor allem mit funkelnden Augen die ganze Welt um Sie herum, denn die größten Geheimnisse sind immer an den unwahrscheinlichsten Orten verborgen. Diejenigen, die nicht an Magie glauben, werden sie niemals finden.“

Roald Dahl

„KIRASUKU MALIBUKU WEEBEE WIZE UN YUBEE KUKU! ¡ALIPENDA KAKAMENDA PANTZ FORLDUN IFNO SUSPENDA! ¡FUNIKIKA KANDERIKA WEEBEE STRONGA YUBEE WEEKA! ¡POPOKOTA BORUMOKA VERI RISKI YU PROVOKA! ¡KATIKATI MOONS UN STARS FANFANISHA VENUS MARTE! El“

Roald Dahl buch Charlie und der große gläserne Fahrstuhl

Charlie y el gran ascensor de cristal

Roald Dahl: Zitate auf Englisch

“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

"Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'
How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“If you are good life is good.”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“Life is more fun if you play games.”

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Roald Dahl buch My Uncle Oswald

Quelle: My Uncle Oswald

“We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.”

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Roald Dahl buch Boy

Quelle: Boy: Tales of Childhood

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

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
-Grandpa Joe”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quelle: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quelle: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.”

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quelle: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.”

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Roald Dahl buch The Twits

Quelle: The Twits

“What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.”

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Roald Dahl The BFG

Quelle: The BFG

“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!”

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Roald Dahl buch Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
Kontext: A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

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

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Roald Dahl buch Matilda

Quelle: Matilda

“I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.”

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Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach

Quelle: James and the Giant Peach

“But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”

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Roald Dahl buch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Quelle: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

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“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?”

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Roald Dahl The BFG

Quelle: The BFG

“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”

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Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach

Quelle: James and the Giant Peach

“I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.”

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“All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.”

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Roald Dahl buch The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Quelle: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

“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.”

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Roald Dahl The BFG

Quelle: The BFG (1982)

“When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”

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Roald Dahl buch Boy

Quelle: Boy: Tales of Childhood

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