Dresden Quotes

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.

I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Thank God for wisecracks.

You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.

I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.Maybe it works better on television.

Maybe, ” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well, ” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

Gruff, ” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

You're such a cynic, " Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types, ” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

Harry, " she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, " I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

I still can't believe, " Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."Wizards don't giggle, " I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard, ” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.