The best Quotes by Cornelius Fudge

"Now look, Lucius, if Dumbledore can't stop them -" said Fudge, whose upper lip was sweating now, "I mean to say, who can?"

He began to splutter, still goggling at Dumbledore. "You-Know-Who... returned? Preposterous."

I must say, you're taking it a lot better than your predecessor. He tried to throw me out of the window, thought I was a hoax planned by the opposition.

"But for heaven's sake - you're wizards! You can do magic! Surely you can sort out - well - anything!"
Scrimgeour turned slowly on the spot and exchanged an incredulous look with Fudge, who really did manage a smile this time as he said kindly, "The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister."

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

"But then," bleated the Prime Minister, "why hasn't a former Prime Minister warned me -?"
At this, Fudge had actually laughed.
"My dear Prime Minister, are you ever going to tell anybody?"

It seems to me that you are all determined to start a panic that will destabilise everything we have worked for these last thirteen years!

He's not back!

Dispatch an owl to the Daily Prophet if we hurry we should make the morning edition. Dawlish, Shacklebolt! You will escort Dumbledore to Azkaban, to await trial for conspiracy and sedition.

Fudge: "Black was vicious. He didn't kill Pettigrew, he destroyed him. A finger. That's all that was left, a finger. Nothing else."
McGonagall: "Sirius Black may not have put his hands to the Potters, but he's the reason they're dead."
Fudge: "And now he wants to finish what he started."

As Minister for Magic, it gives me great pleasure to welcome each and every one of you to the Finals of the 422nd Quidditch World Cup. Let the match begin!

Draco: "Father and I are in the minister's box. By personal invitation of Cornelius Fudge himself."
Lucius: "Don't boast, Draco. There's no need with these people."

What Cornelius doesn't know won't hurt him.

My dad is very supportive of any anti-Ministry action! He's always saying he'd believe anything of Fudge; I mean, the number of goblins Fudge has had assassinated! And of course he uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he secretly feeds to anybody who disagrees with him. And then there's his Umgubular Slashkilter.

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.

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.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

"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.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Dear me, what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?

It's Longbottom, isn't it? Well, your grandmother is used to losing family members to our cause... your death will not come as a great shock.

You'll meet the same sticky end as your parents one of these days, Harry Potter. They were meddlesome fools, too.

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

When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed.

You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job!

These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has, perhaps, faced no greater threat than it does today. But I say this to our citizenry - we, ever your servants, will continue to defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you. Your ministry remains strong.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

"If all the alleged sightings of him are genuine, we must have a good nineteen You-Know-Whos running around the place."
"Which suits him, of course," said Kingsley. "The air of mystery is creating more terror than actually showing himself."

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.

The ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here.

Harry, James wouldn't have wanted me killed! Your dad... your dad would have spared me! He would shown me mercy!

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Hagrid: "Bit o' fresh air, yeh know?"
Umbridge: "Yes, as gamekeeper fresh air must be so difficult to come by."

My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the way we expect.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

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.

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