849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

For Beatrice —I cherished, you perished,The world's been nightmarished.

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.”“My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

Imagining the worst doesn’t keep it from happening

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...

In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things

Other people think destiny is a time in one's life, such as the moment one becomes an adult, or the instant it becomes necessary to construct a hiding place out of sofa cushions. And still other people think that destiny is an invisible force, like gravity, or a fear of paper cuts, that guide everyone throughout their lives, whether they are embarking on a mysterious errand, doing a treacherous deed, or deciding that a book they have begun reading is too dreadful to finish,