Quotes from
Tales of Beedle the Bard

-- Quotes of Notoriety and Significance --

Back | Scarpin Main Menu | Contents


Book Eight


Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.… J.K Rowling: 8:0 viii


The worst excesses of wizardkind sprang from the all-too-human traits of cruelty, apathy, or arrogant misapplication of their own talents… JKR about Beedles philosophy: 8:0 x


Truth… is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution… Dumbledore to Harry: 8:0 xiii


In the fond hope, my son, that you will never need it… Kindly father to wayward son: 8:002


Any wizard who shows fondness for the society of Muggles is of low intelligence, with magic so feeble and pitiful that he can only feel himself superior if surrounded by Muggle pig-men. Nothing is a surer sign of weak magic than a weakness for non-magical company.… Brutus Malfoy: 8:016


Pay me the proof of your pain … Pay me the fruit of your labors … Pay me the treasure of your past… Guardians of the Fountain to Asha, Altheda, Amata and Sir Luckless: 8:026


Bigotted Pure-bloods… lie to themselves … then attempt to foist their hypocrisy upon the rest of us by asking us to ban works dealing with the truths they deny.… Dumbledore to Lucius Malfoy: 8:041


You speak well, Warlock, and I would be delighted by your attentions, if only I thought you had a heart!… Maiden to Heartless Warlock: 8:049


One of the greatest, and least acknowledged, temptations of magic … the quest for invulnerability… Albus Dumbledore: 8:055


To hurt is as human as to breath…Albus Dumbledore: 8:056


Tamper with the deepest mysteries — the source of life, the essence of self — only if prepared for consequences of the most extreme and dangerous kind.…Adelbert Waffling's first Fundamental Law of Magic: 8:059


Give it up, It's never going to happen.…Bertrand de Pensees-Profondes about magically reversing death: 8:080


Taunting death — by engaging in violence or necromancy means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.…Albus Dumbledore: 8:095


When his wand's oak and hers is holly, Then to marry would be folly…Wizarding proverb: 8:100


Rowan gossips, chestnut drones, ash is stubborn, hazel moans… Wizarding proverb: 8:101


Wand of elder, never prosper.… Wizarding proverb: 8:101


Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.… Albus Dumbledore: 8:107


Which human being, having lost someone they loved, could withstand the temptation of the Resurrection Stone?…Albus Dumbledore: 8:107


Even I, Albus Dumbledore, would find it easiest to refuse the Invisibility Cloak; which only goes to show that, clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.… Albus Dumbledore: 8:107

Back | Scarpin Main Menu | Contents

An author uses not only a character's actions to build an image of what a character really is in the mind of the reader; but, what they say as well.

Often something a character says will hold a deep meaning to a reader. This is usually because the reader can identify with it in their own life. It ring's true!

Less often, a character will speak a universal truth; but, in a way that explains it more deeply or clearly than a reader has realized before. These are the words worth remembering!

Join the SCARPblog
Tell me what you think! Post your comment in four categories:

General — Post any annotations you make about the books in general, the author, characters, themes, motif's etc.
Literary — Help make reading the books a more rich experience. Post literary annotations.
Parent's Guide — Post your experiences reading/discussing the books with your children. What have you said, how have you done it?
Hero's Journey — Correlations with Joseph Campbell's outline for myth's and legends.
(more information here)