Daniel Handler Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Daniel Handler

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Giving, Important

• A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

  Daniel Handler

  Kindness, Giving Up, Integrity

• Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Vocabulary, Guarantees That

• Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Giving

• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  Daniel Handler

  Birthday, Book, Thinking

• It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

  Daniel Handler

  Giving, Cry, Reason

• Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Moving, Blessed

  "The Reptile Room". Book by Daniel Handler, 1999.

• I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

  Daniel Handler

  Giving, Bags, Gestures

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.179, Egmont UK

• Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

  Daniel Handler

  Giving, Cinnamon, Friends For Life

• But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

  Daniel Handler

  Giving, House, World

• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Fun, Thinking

• There are some things we might not know,but that doesnt mean we should give up.We can find out what we need to know.We can find out everything

  Daniel Handler

  Giving Up, Mean, Needs

• ...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

  Daniel Handler

  Hate, Giving, Missing

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