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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
After I chased the werewolf and the vampire out of my office, I changed my clothes.
Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.
Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'
The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.
Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.
The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.
This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.