Harry Potter Quotes

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces,"
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands pointing at each other's chests: then, recognising each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and set off, side by side, in the same direction.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
First lines from opening chapter, The Dark Lord Ascending.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.


NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Spoken by Molly Weasley.

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one,
And Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Peeves' Victory Song.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces,"
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Quirinus Quirrell.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Ron Weasley.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Arthur Weasley

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Remus Lupin to Harry.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Remus Lupin to Harry.

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore in movie, screenplay by Steven Kloves.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore in movie, screenplay by Steven Kloves.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I say there are spots that don't come off... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Mad-Eye Moody.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Mad-Eye Moody.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Sirius Black.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Albus Dumbledore to Hogwart's students.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spoken by Hagrid.

No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Luna Lovegood.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Ginny Weasley.
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Severus Snape.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Voldermort.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Harry as he struggles with grief and anger over Sirius's death.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Harry, talking about Sirius's treatment of Kreacher.

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him ... and notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Dumbledore to Harry.

An invisible barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was - he had always been a marked man.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Time is making fools of us again.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Dumbledore to Harry.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Spoken by Albus Dumbledore.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J.K. Rowling, "Dobby's Reward,"
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999,
spoken by the character Arthur Weasley


It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail,"
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000


I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?
J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody


Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.
J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody


If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling, "Padfoot Returns," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Sirius Black


I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure.
J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. Rowling, "The Parting of the Ways," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000


According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else...
J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003


No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end.
J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003,
spoken by the character Luna Lovegood


Time is making fools of us again.
J.K. Rowling, "The Secret Riddle," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
J.K. Rowling, "A Sluggish Memory," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
J.K. Rowling, "Horcruxes," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005


It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J.K. Rowling, "The Cave," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
~J.K. Rowling, "Magic is Might," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007


Harry found the hot drink as welcome as the firewhisky had been on the night that Mad-Eye had died; it seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
J.K. Rowling, "The Thief," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007


"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did."
J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007


It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore


Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007,
spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore