Famous Quotes

J.K. Rowling Quotes

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

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

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." 

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

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

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

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

"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me." 

"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out." 

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already." 

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

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." 

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

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already." 

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." 

"What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does."

"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."

"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."

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

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

"Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy"

"It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept."

"Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now."