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Quotations from
the Harry Potter series
by J.K. Rowling

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

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

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