Quotes From Harry Potter
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. – Dumbledore
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – 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.
If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. – Sirius Black
Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed. – Albus Dumbledore
It is my belief… that the truth is generally preferable to lies. – Albus Dumbledore
Time is making fools of us again. – Albus Dumbledore
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. – Luna Lovegood
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. – Albus Dumbledore
That old berk thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did. – Aberforth
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? – Albus Dumbledore
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. – Albus Dumbledore
The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution. – Dumbledore
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. – Dumbledore
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it. – Quirinius Quirrell
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. – Dumbledore
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. – Dumbledore
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world. – Ron Weasley
It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – Dumbledore
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. – Arthur Weasley
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. – Remus Lupin
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. – Albus Dumbledore
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. – Mad-Eye Moody
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. – Albus Dumbledore
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – Dumbledore
If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. – 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! – Dumbledore
What’s comin’ will come and we’ll meet it when it does. – 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. – Luna Lovegood
You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. – Ginny Weasley
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. – Albus Dumbledore
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. – Severus Snape
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. – Dumbledore
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. – Dumbledore
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. – Dumbledore
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. – Dumbledore
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. – Dumbledore
Pity you can’t attach an extra arm to yours [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you. – Harry Potter
I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. – Harry Potter
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head. – Harry Potter
You know your mother, Malfoy? The expression on her face – like she’s got dung under her nose? Is she like that all the time or just because you were with her? – Harry Potter
I’m going to Hagrid’s, I’ve got a good feeling about going to Hagrid’s. – Harry Potter
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