We’re a phenomenally snobby society, and it’s such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

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

You’ll stay with me?’Until the very end,’ said James.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Not my daughter, you bitch!

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Cinderella? Snow White? What’s that? An illness?

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

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

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

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

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

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

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

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