This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

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

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.