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Matilda QUOTES

Matilda QUOTES

1 " 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 , Matilda

2 " If you are good life is good. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

3 " 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. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

4 " The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

5 " This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

6 " There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

7 " It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

8 " 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. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

9 " 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. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

10 " She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

11 " 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. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

12 " You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.
'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.
Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

13 " Matilda said, "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... "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

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

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

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

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

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

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

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

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

18 " 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 , Matilda

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

― Roald Dahl , Matilda

20 " All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television. "

― Roald Dahl , Matilda