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The Twits is a 1980 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was first published by Jonathan Cape. The story features The Twits (Mr. and Mrs. Twit), a spiteful, idle, unkempt couple who continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other to amuse themselves, and exercise their devious wickedness on their pet monkeys.
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The Twits, as a book, has, as Dahl himself acknowledged, occasionally made adults feel physically sick — perhaps not least because of the graphic description of what lies within Mr Twits' beard in the second chapter of the book (all the chapters being very short by the standards of Dahl's novels). However, it seems it was written with the view that...
The idea of The Twits was triggered by Dahl's simple desire to write "something about beards" since he had an acute dislike of them himself. The first sentence of the story — "what a lot of hairy faces one sees nowadays" — is a genuine complaint.[citation needed] The Twits as a book has remained so successful since its publication in 1980 — at leas...
ISBN 0-224-06491-6 (hardcover, 2003) ISBN 0-14-130107-4 (paperback, 2002) ISBN 0-375-82242-9 (hardcover, 2002) ISBN 0-14-131138-X (paperback, 2001) ISBN 0-14-034640-6 (paperback, 1991) ISBN 0-14-031406-7 (paperback, 1982) ISBN 0-224-01855-8(hardcover, 1980)
Jan 1, 2001 · How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough.
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Jan 21, 2021 · From Miss Trunchbull to the Twits, Aunts Spiker and Sponge, and even Willy Wonka, many of Dahl’s adult characters are merciless figures who enjoy inflicting physical and emotional pain on...
- “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
- “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
- “Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits.
- “So what I want to know is this. How often do all these hairy-faced men wash their faces? It is only once a week, like us, on Sunday nights? And do they shampoo it?
THE TWITS. How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough.
Apr 7, 2015 · To an adult, The Twits may seem a book teeming with fury and hatred, with its vicious old pair trapped in a cycle of rage and revenge (worms hidden in the spaghetti, a glass eye rolling at the ...
