The best Quotes by Sirius Black

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

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.

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.

What's life without a little risk?

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you.

Times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

You are truly your father’s son, Harry.

Remus Lupin: "Severus, don't be a fool!"
Sirius Black: "He can't help it Remus, it's bound to be a habit by now."

Brilliant, Snape. Once again you put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and, as usual, come to the wrong conclusion.

James lifted an invisible sword. "Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart! Like my dad."
Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. "Got a problem with that?"
"No," said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. "If you'd rather be brawny than brainy -"
"Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" interjected Sirius.

Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.

Normally, I have a very sweet disposition as a dog. In fact more than once, James suggested that I make the change permanent. The tail I could live with. But the fleas. they're murder.

It's beautiful, isn't it? I'll never forget the first time I walked through those doors.

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

You don't understand - there are things worth dying for!

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.

As everyone thinks I'm a mad mass-murderer and the Ministry's put a ten thousand Galleon price on my head, I can hardly stroll up the street and start handing out leaflets, can I?

"Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep."

Severus Snape: "You - wait..."
Sirius Black: "Wait for what? What're you going to do, Snivelly, wipe your nose on us?"

My mother didn't have a heart, Kreacher. She kept herself alive out of pure spite.

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading of the map. "We owe them so much."
"Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of lawbreakers," said Fred solemnly.

Master Sirius ran away, good riddance, for he was a bad boy and broke my Mistress's heart with his lawless ways.

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though... keep up with my news... check if I'm happy.

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."

The whole Black family had been in my house, but Sirius ended up in Gryffindor! Shame - he was a talented boy. I got his brother Regulus when he came along, but I'd have liked the set.

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.