Quotes - Emily Smith (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 103

#1

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: morning

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#2

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

tags: humor-reading

8491 likes

#3

“It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

2902 likes

#4

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

2353 likes

#5

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

2476 likes

#6

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

2188 likes

#7

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27728 likes

#8

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13157 likes

#9

“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.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: funny

6423 likes

#10

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

tags: humor

5063 likes

#11

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: libraries, reading

4589 likes

#12

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

4304 likes

#13

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

2611 likes

#14

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: truth, understanding

1740 likes

#15

“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

tags: humor-miracles

1581 likes

#16

“They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

1489 likes

#17

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

1629 likes

#18

“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.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: wrong

1244 likes

#19

“This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

tags: humor

1163 likes

#20

“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: eavesdropping, gossip

878 likes

#21

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: deserve, injustice

792 likes

#22

“Sometimes words are not enough.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

740 likes

#23

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

825 likes

#24

“It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: boring, rudeness, sympathy

605 likes

#25

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: custom, tradition

568 likes

#26

“Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: knowing

527 likes

#27

“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

tags: catalog, doomed-to-repeat-it, history, humor, paraphrased

488 likes

#28

“Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.”
― Lemony Snicket

290 likes

#29

“Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.”
― Lemony Snicket

270 likes

#30

“Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

tags: miracles, pimples, simile

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