Quotes from Lemony Snicket

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles.

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I'm wrong, but I don't have the courage to say so.

in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.