J.K. Rowling Quotes
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes, ’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Arthur and Fred—” “I’m George, ” said the twin at whom Moody was pointing. “Can’t you even tell us apart when we’re Harry?” “Sorry, George—” “I’m only yanking your wand, I’m Fred really—
So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.
All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that.
You haven't got a letter on yours, " George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.
Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless..
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.
Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone.He will only be gone from the school when none here or loyal to him, said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.
Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...
Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you, " said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living-room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.
For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within
You're joking, Perce! You are actually joking, Percy... I don't think I've heard you joke since you were-
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.
Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.
Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him... Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir...
Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.
