“You will find that I will only truly have left the school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 14
“Bed rest and perhaps a large, steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up.”
Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 18
“I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules. Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 18
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 18
“Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the Hat, Harry.”
Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets, Ch. 18
“Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been. Who’d have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise …”
Dumbledore [about Trelawney], Prisoner of Azkaban, Ch. 22
“This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry. But trust me … the time may come when you will be very glad you saved Pettigrew’s life.”
Dumbledore, Prisoner of Azkaban, Ch. 22
“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.”
Dumbledore, Prisoner of Azkaban, Ch. 22
“Harry, Cedric, I suggest you got up to bed. I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.”
Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire, Ch. 17
“Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I have never seen before, containing a really magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon – or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.”
Dumbledore, Goblet of Fire, Ch. 23