Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book Quotes

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

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

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.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

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

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.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

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.