{"author":"Lemony Snicket","author_id":"Lemony+Snicket","total_quotes":220,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["humor","irony"],"id":473,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["awareness"],"id":2005,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["humorous"],"id":8414,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["running"],"id":14244,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["mystery"],"id":16628,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["girl-power","intelligence","inventive"],"id":19298,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"Other people think destiny is a time in one's life, such as the moment one becomes an adult, or the instant it becomes necessary to construct a hiding place out of sofa cushions. And still other people think that destiny is an invisible force, like gravity, or a fear of paper cuts, that guide everyone throughout their lives, whether they are embarking on a mysterious errand, doing a treacherous deed, or deciding that a book they have begun reading is too dreadful to finish,.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["reality-of-life"],"id":19365,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between 'literally' and 'figuratively.' If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["grammar","humor","language"],"id":28443,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["secrets"],"id":29687,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"},{"text":"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.","author":"Lemony Snicket","tags":["humor"],"id":31138,"author_id":"Lemony+Snicket"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":220,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}