Quotes by Lemony Snicket

“It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.”

“I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.”

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”

“..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.”

“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”

“In some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is ...”

“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break int...”

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”

“Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.”

“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”

“The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.”

“This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.”

“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little girl interrupted me, the baby didn't dash off with the other orph...”

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

“One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something...”

“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”

“Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

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

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”