Wizards quotes
138 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!"
"Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz"
"I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?"
"Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard."
"The wand chooses the wizard."
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."
"Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz"
"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles."
"What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture."
"Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it."
"Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!"
"Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry."
"I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain."
"Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery."
"There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards."
"I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy."
"Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard."
"Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No."
"Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake."
"He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless."
"Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical."
"Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly."
"Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember...I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter... After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great."
"To the wizard death is merely a belief."
"Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'."
