Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

— J.K. Rowling

102. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

106. “Worrying means you suffer twice.”

— J.K. Rowling

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

111. “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

112. “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

113. “Mischief Managed.”

— J.K. Rowling

114. “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

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

— 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. “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. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

122. “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

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. “When in doubt, go to the library.”

— J.K. Rowling

128. “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

129. “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

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. “What is life without a little risk?”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

138. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

144. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

146. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

148. “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

149. “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

150. “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