You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.