849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. But.

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

It was another thing you didn’t learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words – or perhaps someone else’s – before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end.

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end.

Busman’s holiday” is an expression which refers to when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives, such as plumbers who visit the Museum of Sinks, or villains who disguise themselves even on their days off.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness.