Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.”

— J.K. Rowling

102. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

104. “Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.”

— J.K. Rowling

105. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

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

— J.K. Rowling

110. “Mischief Managed.”

— J.K. Rowling

111. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

113. “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

114. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

116. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

121. “Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!”

— J.K. Rowling

122. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

124. “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

125. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

127. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

129. “All was well.”

— J.K. Rowling

130. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

132. “The wand chooses the wizard.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

134. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

137. “Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.”

— J.K. Rowling

138. “Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

141. “The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.”

— J.K. Rowling

142. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

147. “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

148. “Destination. Determination. Deliberation.”

— J.K. Rowling

149. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling