By accessing or using this site you accept and agree to our Terms and Conditions
We run an ad-free website, help us keep going, Support Us!
The Reptile Room
Lemony Snicket
Top 10 Best Quotes
“This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.”
“Waiting is one of life’s hardships.”
“For Beatrice--My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.”
“It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things. The Baudelaire orphans were crying not only for their Uncle Monty, but for their own parents, and this dark and curious feeling of falling that accompanies every great loss.”
“Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
“Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.”
“There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.”
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.”
“...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.”
“Sometimes, even in the most unfortunate of lives, there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.”
Except where otherwise noted, all rights reserved to the author(s) of this book (mentioned above). The content of this page serves as promotional material only. If you enjoyed these quotes, you can support the author(s) by acquiring the full book from Amazon.
Book Keywords:
humor, death, life, irony, inspirational