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

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.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

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.

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

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.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.

You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

My husband lost a lot of weight on a new diet and I resent it. It's simple he just doesn't eat when I'm talking.

There is no reward without sacrifice.

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.