The best Quotes by Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursley.

Harry: "Professor Moody?"
Moody: "I don't know so much about 'Professor'. Never got round to much teaching, did I?"

"Are you threatening me, sir?" he said, so loudly that passersby actually turned to stare.
"Yes, I am," said Mad-Eye, who seemed rather pleased that Uncle Vernon had grasped this fact so quickly.
"And do I look like the kind of man who can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
"Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving magical eye. Uncle Vernon leapt backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley."

Listen to me, Potter. Your pal Diggory? By your age he could turn a whistle into a watch and have it sing you the time. Miss Delacour? She's as much a fairy princess as I am. As for Krum, his head may be filled with sawdust, but Karkaroff's is not.

Avada Kedavra… the killing curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

"Mad-Eye Moody?" said George thoughtfully, spreading marmalade on his toast. "Isn't he that nutter -"
"Your father thinks very highly of Mad-Eye Moody," said Mrs. Weasley sternly.
"Yeah, well, Dad collects plugs, doesn't he?" said Fred quietly as Mrs. Weasley left the room.

He's retired, used to work at the Ministry. I met him once when Dad took me into work with him. He was an Auror - one of the best… a Dark wizard catcher. Half the cells in Azkaban are full because of him.

Yeh'll do wha' yer told. Or I'll be takin' a leaf outta Professor Moody's book... I hear yeh made a good ferret, Malfoy.

Moody: "For those of you who haven't taken Polyjuice Potion before, fair warning: It tastes like goblin piss."
Fred: "Have a lot of experience with that, do you, Mad-Eye?"

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.

You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Ron: "One person couldn't feel all that. They'd explode."
Hermione: "Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have!"

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

"E" for "Exceeds Expectations". And I've always thought Fred and I should've got "E" in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?

"Hurry up, boy!" shouted Uncle Vernon from the kitchen. "What are you doing, checking for letter-bombs?" He chuckled at his own joke.

"Fought 'em off, did you, son?" said Uncle Vernon loudly, with the appearance of a man struggling to bring the conversation back on to a plane he understood. "Gave 'em the old one-two, did you?"
"You can't give a Dementor the old one-two," said Harry through clenched teeth.

Harry Potter: "What if I accidentally let something slip?"
Uncle Vernon: "You'll get the stuffing knocked out of you, won't you?"

If we're not careful, we'll have another Head Boy in the family. I don't think I could stand the shame.

Don't get lulled into a false sense of security, thinking he's out of the country. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

"Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –"
"Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet."
"Great idea though, thanks, Mum."

Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.

I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me 'sir' Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

You take it. You should win. That's twice you've saved my neck in here.

Hey, listen, about the badges. I've asked them not to wear them.

Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

My aim is to win the World Cup before I die.

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

Fleur: "It would take more zan a werewolf to stop Bill loving me!"
Molly: "Well, yes, I'm sure, but I thought perhaps - given how - how he -"
Fleur: "You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps, you hoped?"

Norbert? The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.

Never be ashamed, there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair.

Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.

"Follow the spiders"... Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies"?

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.