Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

156. “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

157. “Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good...”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

159. “The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”

— J.K. Rowling

160. “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?”

— J.K. Rowling

161. “We all must face the choice between what’s right and what is easy.”

— J.K. Rowling

162. “Give her hell from us, Peeves.”

— J.K. Rowling

163. “The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”

— J.K. Rowling

164. “It unscrews the other way.”

— J.K. Rowling

165. “It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?”

— J.K. Rowling

166. “You might belong in Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart. Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.”

— J.K. Rowling

167. “What a beautiful place to be with friends. Dobby is happy to be with his friend... Harry Potter...”

— J.K. Rowling

168. “Severus Snape wasn’t yours,” said Harry. “Snape was Dumbledore’s, Dumbledore’s from the moment you started hunting down my mother. And you never realized it, because of the thing you can’t understand. You never saw Snape cast a Patronus, did you, Riddle?”

— J.K. Rowling

169. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

— J.K. Rowling

170. “You see what you expect to see, Severus.”

— J.K. Rowling

171. “I think I’ll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up – it always does in the end.”

— J.K. Rowling

172. “The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?? Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.”

— J.K. Rowling

173. “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

— J.K. Rowling

174. “Enemies of the Heir, beware! You’ll be next, Mudbloods!”

— J.K. Rowling

175. “Where’s the fun without a bit of risk?”

— J.K. Rowling

176. “No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”

— J.K. Rowling

177. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

— J.K. Rowling

178. “It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

— J.K. Rowling

179. “The wizards represent all that the true ‘muggle’ most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!”

— J.K. Rowling

180. “Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.”

— J.K. Rowling

181. “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”

— J.K. Rowling

182. “Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

— J.K. Rowling

183. “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.”

— J.K. Rowling

184. “Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow, we’re identical!” “I dunno though, I think I’m still better looking,” said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.”

— J.K. Rowling

185. “Swish and flick.”

— J.K. Rowling

186. “You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. 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 fail by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

187. “I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any idea what you said, Harry.”

— J.K. Rowling

188. “Give me Harry Potter,” said Voldemort’s voice, “and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. “You have until midnight.”

— J.K. Rowling

189. “Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”

— J.K. Rowling

190. “According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”

— J.K. Rowling

191. “And let it be noted that Slytherin House played its part! Let our contribution not be forgotten!”

— J.K. Rowling

192. “By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.”

— J.K. Rowling

193. “While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one.”

— J.K. Rowling

194. “Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!”

— J.K. Rowling

195. “Longbottom, if brains were gold, you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.”

— J.K. Rowling

196. “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

— J.K. Rowling

197. “The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air...”

— J.K. Rowling

198. “Freedom’s just a word today Freedom’s just a word When someone takes your word away It’s seldom ever heard So take a sentence full of things you’re not supposed to say Carry on, but don’t write them down or you’ll be gone.”

— J.K. Rowling

199. “She’s as nutty as squirrel poo.”

— J.K. Rowling

200. “However,? said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, ’you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

— J.K. Rowling