Quotes About Snicket

scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses

Stop!" Jerome Squalor pleaded. "In the name of injustice!

She crawled in front of the Baudelaires' guardian and bared her teeth at Captain Sham.

It is now necessary for me to use the rather hackneyed phrase 'meanwhile, back at the ranch.' The word 'hackneyed' here means 'used by so, so many writers that by the time Lemony Snicket uses it, it is a tiresome cliché.

And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick.

Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in!

I saw a woman wearing suspicious lettuce!

And Klaus, you are still wearing those idiotic glasses from reading too many books.

I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.

meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.

Nagy sóhajjal fölvette hát azt a könyvet, amelyet az elÅ'bb Violetnek ajánlott, és mint annyiszor életében, most is az olvasásban talált menedéket a borzalmas helyzet elÅ'l.

If you spent less time reading and more time thinking about lumber, you'd care more about money and less about people!

The Baudelaires looked up and saw their guardian standing in the doorway of Violet's

It's cold outside, Mr. Snicket.' 'So I'll shiver,' I said. 'I've shivered before.' She looked down at the table and traced her father's name with her black fingernail. 'So have I,' she said.

Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.

when someone spoke it startled me enough that I made several involuntary noises, a phrase which here means "sounds without meaning to." Involuntary noises are my least favorite kind of noise I can make. If I'm going to sound foolish I would at least like to have done it on purpose.

The Big Peruvian Book of Small Peruvian Snakes.

the famous ichnologist and Josephine's brother-in-law. But all that's ancient history.

There is the medical definition of the word "lousy," meaning "infested with lice," and this definition of "lousy" has not appeared in my work at all, although as Count Olaf's hygiene gets worse and worse I may find occasion to use it.

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