The Tales of Beedle the Bard Quotes

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Death comes for us all in the end.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Hope springs forever.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“But Death was cunning.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Let muggles manage without us!”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Powerful infatuations can be induced by the skilful potioneer, but never yet has anyone managed to create the truly unbreakable, eternal, unconditional attachment that alone can be called Love”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triumph upon him, and flung himself in his rusted armor at the feet of Amata, who was the kindest and most beautiful woman he had ever beheld. Flushed with success, he begged for her hand and her heart, and Amata, no less delighted, realized that she had found a man worthy of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I wrote back to Mr Malfoy, explaining my decision:

So-called pure-blood families maintain their alleged purity by disowning, banishing or lying about Muggles or Muggle-borns on their family trees. They then attempt to foist their hypocrisy upon the rest of us by asking us to ban works dealing with the truths they deny. There is not a witch or wizard in existence whose blood has not mingled with that of Muggles, and I should therefore consider it both illogical and immoral to remove works dealing with the subject from our students' store of knowledge.(4)

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as Headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favourite Death Eater.

(4)My response prompted several further letters from Mr Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Wand of elder, never prosper.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long and happy lives, and none of them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain's waters carried no enchantment at all.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Another notable difference between these fables and their Muggle counterparts is that Beedle’s witches are much more active in seeking their fortunes than our fairy-tale heroines. Asha, Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbitty are all witches who take their fate into their own hands, rather than taking a prolonged nap or waiting for someone to return a lost shoe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“(...) “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfeeling witch or wizard.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Y entonces recibió a la Muerte como si fuera una vieja amiga, y se marchó con ella de buen grado. Y así, como iguales, ambos se alejaron de la vida.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Human efforts to evade or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The reason for any omission lies, perhaps, in what Dumbledore said about truth, many years ago, to his favourite and most famous pupil: ‘It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of stories written for young wizards and witches. They have been popular bedtime reading for centuries,”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The bond between parent and child is the root from which all success, all well-being, grows.”
― J.K. Rowling, Tales of Beetle the Bard Illustrated Version

“A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard