Quotes About Count Olaf

#1. Time after time he[Count Olaf] had come very close to succeeding, and time after time the Baudelaire orphans had revealed his plan, and time after time he had escaped-and all Mr. Poe had ever done was cough.

Lemony Snicket

#2. How clever of you to figure that out,' said a voice at the top of the stairs, and Violet, and Klaus were so surprised they almost dropped the lamp. It was Stephano, or, if you prefer, it was Count Olaf. It was the bad guy.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Hee hee hee!" Nero said. "You children are like three clowns!"
"Ho ho ho!" Count Olaf said.
"Ha ha ha!" Violet said, who was beginning to feel queasy from faking all this laughter.

Lemony Snicket

#4. I told you," Count Olaf said weakly. "I told you I'd do that one last time.

Lemony Snicket

#5. Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn't nearby.

Lemony Snicket

#6. Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Lemony Snicket

#7. What are your names?"
"You know our names," Violet said curtly, a word which here means "tired of Count Olaf's nonsense." "That wig and that lipstick don't fool us any more than your pale-brown dress and sensible beige shoes. You're Count Olaf.

Lemony Snicket

#8. Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said.
Not with you around," Violet agreed.
I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Count Olaf has been captured," she

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#10. Count Olaf: You should have given up a long time ago, orphans. I triumphed the moment you lost your family.
Violet: We didn't lose our family. Only our parents.

Lemony Snicket

#11. Count Olaf was so obsessed with getting his filthy hands on the money that he hatched a devious plan that gives me nightmares to this day.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.

Lemony Snicket

#13. Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.

Lemony Snicket

#14. Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

Lemony Snicket

#15. Mr. Poe opened his mouth to say something, but erupted into a brief fit of coughing. "I have made arrangements," he said finally, "for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.

Lemony Snicket

#16. It was amazing, she thought, how everything having to do with Count Olaf was frightening.

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#17. It pain me to tell you that once again Count Olaf would appear with yet another disgusting scheme, and that Mr. Poe would once again fail to do anything even remotely helpful.

Lemony Snicket

#18. I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.

Lemony Snicket

#19. As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Ray Kroc

#20. I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Vikram Seth

#21. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

#22. Mind is the creator of everything.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#23. It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.

Lemony Snicket

#24. So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.

Lemony Snicket

#25. This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!

Angela Carter