The best Quotes by Voldemort / Tom Riddle

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

I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed.

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

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!"

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.

Wormtail, I need someone with brains, someone whose loyalty has never wavered, and you unfortunately fulfil neither requirement.

And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living?

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans.

Don't be a fool. Better save your own life and join me... or you'll meet the same end as your parents... they died begging me for mercy.

Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts.

See what I have become? Mere shadow and vapour... I have form only when I can share another's body... but there have always been those willing to let me into their hearts and minds.

Well, how is it that you - a skinny boy with no extraordinary magical talent - managed to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?

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

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.

It was a name I was already using at Hogwarts, to my most intimate friends only, of course. You think I was going to use my filthy Muggle father's name forever? I, in whose veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself, through my mother's side? I, keep the name of a foul, common Muggle, who abandoned me even before I was born, just because he found out his wife was a witch? No, Harry. I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak, when I had become the greatest sorcerer in the world!

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.

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

Horace Slughorn: "Thank you for the pineapple, you're quite right, it is my favorite - but how did you know?"
Tom Riddle: "Intuition."

I can make animals do what I want them to do, without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to.

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.

I knew I was different, I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something.

You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Kill me, then, Voldemort, I welcome death! But my death will not bring you what you seek... there is so much you do not understand...

I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there. That's Voldemort's job.

He began to splutter, still goggling at Dumbledore. "You-Know-Who... returned? Preposterous."

Harry: "You don't learn from your mistakes, Riddle, do you?"
Voldemort: "You dare -"
Harry: "Yes I dare. I know things you don't know, Tom Riddle. I know lots of important things that you don't. Want to hear some, before you make another big mistake?"

I didn't think Voldemort was that human. He was the essence of evil.

"If all the alleged sightings of him are genuine, we must have a good nineteen You-Know-Whos running around the place."
"Which suits him, of course," said Kingsley. "The air of mystery is creating more terror than actually showing himself."

For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That's a Basilisk, listeners. One simple test: check whether the thing that's glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it's safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that's still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

My sister has children who have been around 10, 11, 12 and I said, "Marth, I don't know about this Voldemort."
"What? You're being asked to play Voldemort? You've got to do it!"

Please don't think badly of me when you see it. You have no idea what he was like... even back then.

His name is Voldemort. Filius, you might as well use it. He's going to try to kill you either way.

I must say, I'd like to know where you get your information, boy; more knowledgeable than half the staff, you are.

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter’s the one
And Voldy’s gone mouldy, so now let's have fun

When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone's got? Of course he isn't. It'll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.

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.

...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.

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

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

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.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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

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.

I can't understand the vitriol directed at J.K. Rowling. I can understand the heat of an argument, but I find this age of accusation and the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.

The legacy of these movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children. So, you could be watching them in 50 years' time, easy. I'll not be here sadly, but Hagrid will.