Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.
Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book.
“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
“Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.”
“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.”
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”
“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”
“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”
“If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.”
“There is no crime in anyones blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are made by hunger, want and injustice.”
“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.”