Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.