No, thanks, " said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.

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

I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe

Nobody touches my ding dongs!

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now.