Lord Henry looked serious for some moments. "It is perfectly monstrous," he said, at last, "the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

Min yngste bror sier: La meg bære deg gjennom barndommens farer og fortelle deg om vindretningene, og om jordas farger og skyenes.

La meg sette deg opp på greiner så du får utsyn. Og feste deg som en drage til min snor.

"Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?" "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest.

A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode." "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again.

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

Perhaps, after all, America never has been dicorvered," said Mr. Erskine. "I myself would say it har merely been detected

Everything was ready, everything was prepared. He knew where his towel was

...the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, a mindbogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if it you can't see it, it can't see you

It is difficult to say exactly what the people on the surface of the planet were doing now, because they didn't really know what they were doing themselves. None of it made a lot of sense - running into houses, running out of houses, howling noiselessly at the noise

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All inflence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

I like persons better than principles, and I like people with no principles better than anything else in the world

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best for ending one

as for believing things , I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL. BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

Da min søster ble født, var himmelen full av skyer,
men ikke regn. Trærne var fulle av blader, alle vinder
hadde stilnet. Alt for å beskytte min søster.

Min mor pakket henne inn i et teppe
og sa hun var den yngste. Min far
sang den sangen han siden glemte.

Min far løp fortere enn hester og hjorter
til sykehuset da min søster fikk feberkrampe.
Min far hoppet over tjern og grantrær
med min søster i armene.

Alle trodde at min søster var yngst.
Så kom jeg. Min søster
sto i øyehøyde med meg der jeg lå
i glassenga på barselavdelingen.

Det første ordet jeg sa
var min søsters navn.

The secret of flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss.

You shall not pass!