Top 500 Lemony Snicket Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Lemony Snicket

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2. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

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

— Lemony Snicket

4. “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

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

— Lemony Snicket

6. “At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”

— Lemony Snicket

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7. “Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.”

— Lemony Snicket

8. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”

— Lemony Snicket

9. “A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”

— Lemony Snicket

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10. “I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”

— Lemony Snicket

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11. “People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

— Lemony Snicket

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12. “They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”

— Lemony Snicket

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13. “I suppose I’ll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”

— Lemony Snicket

14. “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”

— Lemony Snicket

15. “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”

— Lemony Snicket

16. “The sad truth is the truth is sad.”

— Lemony Snicket

17. “Memento mori- remember you will die.”

— Lemony Snicket

18. “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

19. “Sometimes words are not enough.”

— Lemony Snicket

20. “I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.”

— Lemony Snicket

21. “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”

— Lemony Snicket

22. “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

23. “Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of “systematically assisting Sisyphus’s stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister,” which is easier done than said.”

— Lemony Snicket

24. “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”

— Lemony Snicket

25. “The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”

— Lemony Snicket

26. “Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.”

— Lemony Snicket

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27. “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

— Lemony Snicket

28. “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

29. “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

30. “The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman – it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.”

— Lemony Snicket

31. “Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don’t you find?”

— Lemony Snicket

32. “Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn’t mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”

— Lemony Snicket

33. “If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”

— Lemony Snicket

34. “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.”

— Lemony Snicket

35. “Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.”

— Lemony Snicket

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

— Lemony Snicket

37. “One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”

— Lemony Snicket

38. “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

39. “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

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

— Lemony Snicket

41. “There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”

— Lemony Snicket

42. “Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.”

— Lemony Snicket

43. “Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It’s the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.”

— Lemony Snicket

44. “There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.”

— Lemony Snicket

45. “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”

— Lemony Snicket

46. “There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”

— Lemony Snicket

47. “Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”

— Lemony Snicket

48. “Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”

— Lemony Snicket

49. “Can’t we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.”

— Lemony Snicket

50. “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”

— Lemony Snicket

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