“I don’t like small people. Small people should never be seen by anybody. They should be kept out of sight in boxes like hairpins and buttons. I cannot for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up. I think they do it on purpose.”
George’s Grandma
Miss Trunchbull
Aunt Sponge
The Grand High Witch
“Two rights don’t make a left!”
The BFG
Willy Wonka
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Fleshlumpeater
“I gave up growing when I was extremely small, along with all the other nasty childish habits like laziness and disobedience and greed and sloppiness and untidiness and stupidity. You haven’t given up any of these things, have you? You’re eight years old. That’s old enough to know better. If you don’t stop growing soon, it’ll be too late.”
George’s Grandma
Miss Trunchbull
Mr Wormwood
Aunt Spiker
“I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips.”
Charlie
Augustus Gloop
Danny
Matilda
“Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!”
Boggis
The BFG
Miss Honey
Willy Wonka
“A book? What d’you want a flaming book for? What’s wrong with the telly, for heaven’s sake? We’ve got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book!”
Mr Wormwood
Miss Trunchbull
Mr Salt
Mike TV
“You’re plotting something. Whenever you go all quiet like that I know very well you’re plotting something. You’d better be careful, because when I see you starting to plot, I watch you like a wombat.”
The Gizzardgulper
Mrs Twit
Mr Twit
The Grand High Witch
“My dear young fellow, there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours that you haven’t started wondering about yet.”
The grandmother in The Witches
Grandpa Joe
Miss Honey
The Old-Green-Grasshopper
“My Prince! ... He chops off heads! / How could I marry anyone / Who does that sort of thing for fun?”
Snow White
Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood
Goldilocks
“I have secret plans and clever tricks.”
The Enormous Crocodile
The Pelly
Fantastic Mr Fox
Esio Trot