Quirrell Quotes

“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next; and the Slytherins will be enabled to believe what they wish, while the Gryffindors argue themselves into supporting you as well. So long as there is uncertainty, people can believe whatever seems to be to their own advantage. And so long as you appear strong, so long as you appear to be winning, their instincts will tell them that their advantage lies with you. Walk always in the shadow, and light and darkness both will follow.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“No..." said Professor Quirrell. "That is not why I am here. You have made no effort to hide your dislike for me, Miss Granger. I thank you for that lack of pretense, for I much prefer true hate to false love.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“You might think killing people might them make them like them, but it doesn't. It just makes people dead.”
― Team Starkid

“Quirrel said Snape-"
"Professor Snape, Harry."
"Yes, him - Quirrell said he hates me because he hate my father. Is that true?"
"Well, they did rather detest each other. Not unlike yourself and Mr Malfoy. Then your father did something Snape could never forgive. "
"What?"
"He saved his life."
"What??"
"Yes..." said Dumbledore dreamily. "Funny, the way peoples minds work, isn't it?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“No, no, no. I tried to kill you. Your friend Miss Granger accidentally knocked me over as she rushed to set fire to Snape at that Quidditch match. She broke my eye contact with you. Another few seconds and I'd have got you off that broom. I'd have managed it before then if Snape hadn't been muttering a counter-curse, trying to save you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“He is with me wherever I go' said Quirrell quietly. 'I met him when I traveled around the world. A foolish young man I was then, full of ridiculous ideas about good and evil. Lord Voldemort showed me how wrong I was. There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it... Since then, I have served him faithfully, although I have let him down many times. He has had to be very hard on me.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone