849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

Memento Mori’ means ‘Remember you will die.

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.

I was tired of working in the lumber industry,” Phil said. “I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now – cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better.” “You always were an optimist,” Klaus said.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

Sometimes things can go on right in front of your nose, but you don’t know about them.

The word “haunted”, I’m sure you know, usually applies to a house, graveyard, or supermarket that has ghosts living in it, but the word can also be used to describe people who have seen and heard such horrible things that they feel as if ghosts are inside them, haunting their brains and hearts with misery and despair.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so long since the Baudelaires were able to be the people they really were.

There’s a lot that doesn’t make sense.