Roald Dahl Quotes

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

I love words.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

Words are all we have.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.