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„A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.“
„There’s enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!“
„There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.“
„Dreams is very mystical things,” the BFG said. “Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest professors is understanding them.“
„Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were boring. All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting. One of the things he NEVER NEVER was allowed to do, the most exciting of them all, was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond.“
„It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.“
„When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.“
„You ignorant little slug!” the Trunchbull bellowed. “You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!“
„However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.“
„In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.“
„There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.“
„I’m afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.“
„I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?“
„What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.“
„Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.“
„Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.“
„The little pig began to prayBut Wolfie blew his house away.He shouted, “Bacon, Pork, and Ham!Oh what a lucky wolf I am!”And though he ate the pig quite fast,He carefully kept the tail till last.“
„… and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.“
„If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.“
„The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.“
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