Violet Baudelaire Quotes

“Very lovely indeed"
—Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Among Violet's many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The particular knot she was using was called the Devil's Tongue. A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil's Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in the most complicated and eerie way.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“You should have given up a long time ago, orphans. I triumphed the moment you lost your family."

"We didn't lose our family. Only our parents.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning