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?

If you are good life is good.

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

Life is more fun if you play games.

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

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.

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.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

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

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...

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

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.

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.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

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

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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

Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

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.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

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

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!