The best Quotes by Nymphadora Tonks

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities... like the ability to behave myself.

Wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let's go.

"Very clean, aren't they, these Muggles?" said the witch called Tonks, who was looking around the kitchen with great interest. "My dad's Muggle-born and he's a right old slob. I suppose it varies just as it does with wizards?"

"Funny place," she said. "It's a bit too clean, d'you know what I mean? Bit unnatural. Oh, this is better," she added, as they entered Harry's bedroom and he turned on the light.

Lupin: "And this is Nymphadora-"
Tonks: "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus, it's Tonks."
Lupin: "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only."
Tonks: "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you Nymphadora."

"Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.

I got top marks in Concealment and Disguise during Auror training without any study at all, it was great.

Remus Lupin: "I am not being ridiculous. Tonks deserves somebody young and whole."
Arthur Weasley: "But she wants you. And after all, Remus, young and whole men do not necessarily remain so."

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.

By all means continue destroying my possessions, I daresay I have too many.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question. One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin.

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.

Hermione: "I mean, it's sort of exciting isn't it? Breaking the rules."
Ron: "Who are you and what have you done with Hermione Granger?"

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess... that I rather thought... you had enough responsibility to be going on with.

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

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

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.

I think you're like James, who would have regarded it as the height of dishonour to mistrust his friends.

He will know why I died and I hope he will understand. I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

Just so you know, Harry. I think you would have given your father a run for his money. And that is saying something.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my "furry little problem" in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

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.

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

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

"They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs."

...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'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now."
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year."

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

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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