The best Quotes by Sirius Black

The best Quotes by Sirius Black

Sirius Black is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Sirius was first mentioned briefly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a wizard who lent Rubeus Hagrid a flying motorbike shortly after Lord Voldemort killed James and Lily Potter.

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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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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.
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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.
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The ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here.
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What's life without a little risk?
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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."
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Brilliant, Snape. Once again you put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and, as usual, come to the wrong conclusion.
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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you.
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Times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
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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.
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You are truly your father’s son, Harry.
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Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
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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.
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It's beautiful, isn't it? I'll never forget the first time I walked through those doors.
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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.

Quotes about Sirius Black

"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.
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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.

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When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.
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A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.
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I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
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You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
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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!"
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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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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.
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Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn't fair.
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Harry, James wouldn't have wanted me killed! Your dad... your dad would have spared me! He would shown me mercy!
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.
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Master Regulus was strange, not as he usually was, disturbed in his mind, Kreacher could tell ... and he asked Kreacher to take him to the cave, the cave where Kreacher had gone with the Dark Lord.
Lily: "You've been so brave."
James: "You are nearly there. Very close. We are... so proud of you."
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.
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You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... but you cannot deny he's got style.
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.
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"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.
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"Now look, Lucius, if Dumbledore can't stop them -" said Fudge, whose upper lip was sweating now, "I mean to say, who can?"
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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