The best Quotes by Phineas Nigellus Black

You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... but you cannot deny he's got style.

"Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own -"
"That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore.

You know, this is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are right about everything.

I wonder almost daily why I accepted this appointment from the Ministry.

"I thought," said Phineas Nigellus, stroking his pointed beard, "that to belong in Gryffindor house you were supposed to be brave? It looks to me as though you would have been better off in my own house. We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks."

Probably another message for my worthless great-great-grandson.

Phineas Nigellus called, in his high, reedy voice, "And let it be noted that Slytherin House played its part! Let our contribution not be forgotten!"

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

This enchanted lectern serves as the spot from which the great headmistresses and headmasters of Hogwarts - as well as Professor Black - address the school.

There's Phineas Nigellus... my great-great-grandfather, see? ... least popular Headmaster Hogwarts ever had.

Phineas Nigellus: "Headmaster! They are camping in the Forest of Dean! The Mudblood -"
Severus Snape: "Do not use that word!'

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.

"Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, dipping the point of her quill into her ink pot, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet."

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

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.

You're just as sane as I am.

Magic, both beautiful and powerful, binds together our long history. That common bond we share is the legacy of Hogwarts.

Every corridor, every portrait, every stone in this castle tells the story of witches and wizards who came before. Here you will meet lifelong friends and grow into your own magical abilities in the class rooms of the worlds most talented professors.

There is no light without shadow as there is no shadow without light. Simply because you can eliminate darkness does not always mean that you should.

Player: "You're not a bad chap - for a slytherin."
Sebastian: "You Gryffindors don't have a monopoly on bravery, you know."

Player: "You're not a bad chap - for a slytherin."
Sebastian: "Ah. There's that Hufflepuff loyalty you're so well-known for."

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.

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

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.

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.

"You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!" screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart.

A lot of people say that Slytherins and Gryffindors represent two sides of the same coin.

But we're not bad people. We're like our emblem, the snake: sleek, powerful, and frequently misunderstood.

You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness.

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

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

What's life without a little risk?

Crabbe, loosen your hold a little. If Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you, but no pressure.

Myrtle: "D'you think I don't know what people call me behind my back? Fat Myrtle! Ugly Myrtle! Miserable, moaning, moping Myrtle!"
Peeves: "You've forgotten pimply!"