I like a quiet life, you know me.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!" squeaked Dobby angrily.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving.

I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.