Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

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.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

One can never have enough socks

It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important

privation is the cause of appetite

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

I'm inspired by my family, especially my mother.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.