Quotes by Voldemort / Tom Riddle

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

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

Dumbledore: "It was foolish to come here tonight, Tom. The Aurors are on their way."
Voldemort: "By which time I shall be gone, and you will be dead!"

Harry! I'd almost forgotten you were here, standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you, but word has it you're almost as famous as me these days.

Voldemort is my past, present, and future.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost... but still, I was alive.

As inspiring as I find your bloodlust Bellatrix, I must be the one to kill Harry Potter.

Come out, Harry... come out and play, then it will be quick. It might even be painless, I would not know, I have never died.

After tonight, if they speak of you they'll speak only of how you begged for death. And I, being a merciful Lord, obliged.

Unicorn blood can sustain me but it cannot give me a body of my own. But there is something that can. Something that, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket.