25 quotes
"There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!"
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.
"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
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.
The Minpins (1991)
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.
The Minpins (1991)
Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
Women are as inscrutable as the ocean. You never know what you have under your keel, deep water or shallow, until you have heaved the lead.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.
The Witches (1983)
"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."
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
Must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she learns how to behave in this world?
The matter with human beans … is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
“We must hurry!” said Mr. Wonka. “We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
“Hooray!” said the Chief of the Army. “Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!”
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
‘But human beans [...] is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.’
"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."
The BFG (1982)
[M]akes one wonder in the end what sort of people these Israelis are. It is like the good old Hitler and Himmler times all over again.
One right is not making two lefts.
The BFG (1982)
"Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest professors is understanding them."
The BFG (1982)
My dear Veruca! How do you do? What a pleasure this is! You do have an interesting name, don't you? I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much.