849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective. You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, 'Well, at least I'm not being eaten by a bear.

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

I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands."Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations.""But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.