50+ Spellbinding Quotes from Harry Potter to Bookmark and Be Inspired

With its tales of magic, friendship and courage, the Harry Potter series has enchanted us for decades. Beyond the spells and potions, the books are filled with memorable quotes that resonate with readers. This article is a compilation of such quotes from Harry Potter books that you’ll want to bookmark and revisit. From the wisdom of Albus Dumbledore to the bravery of Harry and his friends, these quotes capture the essence of the wizarding world.

Albus Dumbledore Quotes

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

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

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

4) Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

5) Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

6) If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark

7) The trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

8) Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

9) It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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

11) The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

12) It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

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

14) We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

15) Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

16) Curiosity is not a sin ... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

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

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

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

20) Those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

21) Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Minerva McGonagall Quotes

22) Welcome to Hogwarts!

23) Why is it when something happens, it is always you three?

24) Five points will be awarded to each of you for sheer dumb luck.

25) Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr. Potter and yourself into a pocket watch?

26) Potter is a boy, not a piece of meat.

27) His name is Voldemort, Filius. You might as well use it, he’s going to try to kill you either way.

28) Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody.

29) I’ve always wanted to use that spell.

Harry Potter Quotes

30) I know some things. I can, you know, do math and stuff.

31) I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I’m not there.

22) Snape's patronus was a doe, the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

33) Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

34) That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth. I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.

Hermione Granger Quotes

35) I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

36) Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

37) Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

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

39) Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

Ron Weasley Quotes

40) When in doubt, go to the library.

41) Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

42) Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

43) I always said he was mental. Brilliant and everything, but cracked.

44) Don't let the muggles get you down.

Draco Malfoy Quotes

45) Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

46) Training for the ballet, Potter?

Luna Lovegood Quotes

47) Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

48) Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

Severus Snape Quotes

49) The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure

50) Always.

Sirius Black Quotes

51) I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

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

Voldemort Quotes

53) Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

Others

54) Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go. – Nymphadora Tonks

55) Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt. – Fred Weasley

56) The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. – Ginny Weasley

57) Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. – Nearly Headless Nick

58) Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that. – Gilderoy Lockhart

59) The wand chooses the wizard. – Garrick Ollivander

OK, those were all the best quotes from Harry Potter I have.

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