Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

154. “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

155. “Destination. Determination. Deliberation.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

158. “And what will you give me in return, Severus?’ ‘In – in return?’ Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, ‘Anything...”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

161. “Give her hell from us, Peeves.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

163. “It unscrews the other way.”

— J.K. Rowling

164. “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

165. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

168. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

181. “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.”

— J.K. Rowling

182. “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

183. “Swish and flick.”

— J.K. Rowling

184. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

186. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

194. “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

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

197. “What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?”

— J.K. Rowling

198. “Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the Hufflepuff House Quidditch team at Hogwarts.”

— J.K. Rowling

199. “The magic continues, destiny awaits.”

— J.K. Rowling

200. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone will give us some protection forever. it is in your skin.”

— J.K. Rowling