Best Harry Potter Quotes From The Harry Potter Series

 

Read these best Harry Potter quotes and enjoy the witty jabs from Harry Potter. You will find these best Harry Potter quotes revealing a lot about the characters in the books.

Best Harry Potter Quotes

1. The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote by Severus Snape

 

2. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

3. The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

4. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

5. Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him … and notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote from Dumbledore to Harry

 

6. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

7. An invisible barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was – he had always been a marked man.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Time is making fools of us again.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

8. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

9. Not my daughter, you bitch!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

- Quote by Molly Weasley

 

10. You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

11. Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

12. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote from Dumbledore to Voldermort

 

13. I say there are spots that don’t come off… Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Mad-Eye Moody

 

14. Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Mad-Eye Moody

 

15. If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Sirius Black

 

16. I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind…. At these times… I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

17. Curiosity is not a sin… But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

18. In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Alkaban

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

19. We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter’s the one, and Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Peeves’ Victory Song.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

20. We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

21. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew – and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents – that there was all the difference in the world.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

 

22. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

23. Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

24. Dumbledore to Harry as he struggles with grief and anger over Sirius’s death.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike …We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote from Dumbledore to Harry, talking about Sirius’s treatment of Kreacher

 

25. People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

26. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

27. Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

- Quote from Dumbledore to Harry

 

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

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

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

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

30. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

31. You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

- Quote by Ginny Weasley

 

32. There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 

33. It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

34. Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

- Quote by Arthur Weasley

 

35. 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.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Albus Dumbledore

 

36. There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

- Quote by Quirinus Quirrell

 

37. Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

- Quote by Ron Weasley

 

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