Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

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'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

My giant goes with me wherever I go.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.