Mug Quotes

Don't let the muggles get you down.

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq.

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.