Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

One can never have enough socks

All in good time is something Cosmic Ordering does not follow.

Always have a 'Plan C

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person that can find the remedies.

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune...

I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.

You are remembered for your goodness.

When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.