Frases de Roald Dahl

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“Veja o mundo ao seu redor com olhos brilhantes, porque os maiores segredos estão escondidos nos lugares mais improváveis. E aqueles que não acreditam em magia nunca vão encontrá-la.”

“Um pouco de insensatez de vez em quando é apreciado pelos homens mais sábios.”

“Não importa quem você é ou a sua aparência, desde que alguém ame você.”

“Certifique-se de tudo o que você fizer seja absolutamente louco e inacreditável.”

“Os adultos são criaturas complicadas, cheias de manias e segredos.”

“Comecei a perceber o quanto era importante ser um entusiasta da vida. Se você estiver interessado em algo, não importa o que seja, vá a toda velocidade. Abrace-o com os dois braços, abrace-o, ame-o e, acima de tudo, torne-se apaixonado por ele. Morno não é bom. Quente também não é bom. Branco quente e apaixonado é a única coisa a ser.”

“Os livros a transportaram para novos mundos e a apresentaram a pessoas incríveis que viveram vidas emocionantes. Ela embarcou em navios à vela de antigamente com Joseph Conrad. Ela foi para a África com Ernest Hemingway e para a Índia com Rudyard Kipling. Ela viajou por todo o mundo sentada em seu quartinho em uma vila inglesa.”

“Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.”

“… 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.”

“Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.”

“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!”

“Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.”

“It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.”

“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.”

“You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much.”