Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “No, I’m fine,? said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.”

— J.K. Rowling

102. “If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”

— J.K. Rowling

103. “Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”

— J.K. Rowling

104. “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”

— J.K. Rowling

105. “Whatever house I’m in, I hope she’s not in it.”

— J.K. Rowling

106. “Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.”

— J.K. Rowling

107. “Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!”

— J.K. Rowling

108. “And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.”

— J.K. Rowling

109. “Great, tell me when you’ve defeated Voldemort for me, will you?”

— J.K. Rowling

110. “Mischief Managed.”

— J.K. Rowling

111. “The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.”

— J.K. Rowling

112. “Don’t be stupid, it’s a flying house!”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

114. “I’m going to keep going until I succeed – or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.”

— J.K. Rowling

115. “Worrying means you suffer twice.”

— J.K. Rowling

116. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

— J.K. Rowling

117. “Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!”

— J.K. Rowling

118. “Death comes for us all in the end.”

— J.K. Rowling

119. “Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don’t you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.”

— J.K. Rowling

120. “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

— J.K. Rowling

121. “You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!”

— J.K. Rowling

122. “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.”

— J.K. Rowling

123. “All was well.”

— J.K. Rowling

124. “The ones that love us never really leave us – Sirius Black.”

— J.K. Rowling

125. “We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.”

— J.K. Rowling

126. “Don’t let the muggles get you down”.”

— J.K. Rowling

127. “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

— J.K. Rowling

128. “Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.”

— J.K. Rowling

129. “When in doubt, go to the library.”

— J.K. Rowling

130. “When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.”

— J.K. Rowling

131. “Eat, you’ll feel better.” – Remus Lupin.”

— J.K. Rowling

132. “Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.”

— J.K. Rowling

133. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.”

— J.K. Rowling

134. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

— J.K. Rowling

135. “Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?”

— J.K. Rowling

136. “I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

— J.K. Rowling

137. “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. Remember Cedric Diggory.”

— J.K. Rowling

138. “Oh, HONESTLY, don’t you two read?”

— J.K. Rowling

139. “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”

— J.K. Rowling

140. “What is life without a little risk?”

— J.K. Rowling

141. “From now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell ‘Die, Ron, Die,’ I’m chucking them in the bin where they belong.”

— J.K. Rowling

142. “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”

— J.K. Rowling

143. “Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”

— J.K. Rowling

144. “You’d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up.”

— J.K. Rowling

145. “As our listeners will know, unless they’ve taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who’s strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.”

— J.K. Rowling

146. “If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.”

— J.K. Rowling

147. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

— J.K. Rowling

148. “We did it, we bashed them wee Potter’s the one, and Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!”

— J.K. Rowling

149. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

— J.K. Rowling

150. “I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.”

— J.K. Rowling