Quotes from Lemony Snicket

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person, but it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing" is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don't know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

I'm reminded of a book my father used to read me," she said. "A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

I'm happier than a pig eating bacon!

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

Summer seems so cold without you, winter is even colder.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

What do your parents know, about surviving?

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

Blinded following the Blindfolded