1,714 Quotes by J.K. Rowling

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

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.