Daniel Handler Quotes

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.