Quote

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Roald Dahl

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
Author
Autobiographer
Fighter Pilot
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Llandaf
Wing Commander Roald Dahl
Littles
Mathematical
Little
Suddenly
English
Rules
Almost
Strictness
Powerful
Governed
Simple
Grammar
Truth
Struck

More quotes by Roald Dahl

Image
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.
Roald Dahl
Image
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
Roald Dahl
Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Roald Dahl
Image
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
Roald Dahl
Image
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.
Roald Dahl
Image
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
Roald Dahl
Image
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
Roald Dahl
Image
...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
Roald Dahl
Image
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
Roald Dahl
Image
All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
Roald Dahl
Image
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
Roald Dahl
Image
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
Roald Dahl
Image
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
Roald Dahl
Image
Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
Roald Dahl
Image
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Roald Dahl
Image
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
Roald Dahl
Image
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!
Roald Dahl
Image
Words, he said, is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
Roald Dahl
Image
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.
Roald Dahl
Image
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
Roald Dahl