George's Marvellous Medicine Quotes

“lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine

“Never grow up...always down.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine

“George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine

“As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“You know what’s the matter with you?’ the old woman said, staring at George over the rim of the teacup with those bright wicked little eyes. ‘You’re growing too fast. Boys who grow too fast become stupid and lazy.’ ‘But I can’t help it if I’m growing fast, Grandma,’ George said. ‘Of course you can,’ she snapped. ‘Growing’s a nasty childish habit.’ ‘But we have to grow, Grandma. If we didn’t grow, we’d never be grown-ups.’ ‘Rubbish, boy, rubbish,’ she said. ‘Look at me. Am I growing? Certainly not.’ ‘But you did once, Grandma.’ ‘Only very little,’ the old woman answered. ‘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?’ ‘I’m still only a little boy, Grandma.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“old girl’s head went through the ceiling as though it were butter.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“laziness and disobedience and greed and sloppiness and untidiness and stupidity.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“Will she go pop? Will she explode? Will she go flying down the road? Will she go poof in a puff of smoke? Start fizzing like a can of Coke? Who knows? No I. Let’s wait and see. (I’m glad it’s neither you nor me.) Oh Grandma, if you only knew, What I got in store for you!”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine

“George couldn’t help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog’s bottom.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“well, I suppose it’s all for the best, really. She was a bit of a nuisance around the house, wasn’t she?”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“She’s a pain in the neck,”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“She’s stuck where she is, and a good thing, too.”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“But…but…but…”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“hair spray and shaving cream and shoe polish are”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“red”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“had been used for stirring paint. George picked it up and started to stir his marvelous concoction. The mixture was as thick as cream,”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“slow at first … just a very gradual inching upwards … up, up, up … inch by inch … getting taller and taller … about an inch every few”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine

“Oh, how he hated Grandma!”
― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine