Game Of Thrones Quotes

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”
― George R. R. Martin

“A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“And who are you, the proud Lord said
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat,
that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red,
a lion still has claws.
And, mine are as long and sharp, my Lord
as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke,
that Lord of Castamere,
but now the rains weep o'er his hall,
with no one there to hear.
Yes, now the rains weep o'er his hall,
and not a soul to hear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life”
― George RR Martin

“He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon”
― George R.R. Martin , A Game of Thrones

“Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The North remembers.”
― George R.R. Martin

“She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.”
― George. R. R. Martin

“Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.”
― George R.R. Martin

“The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“All halls lead somewhere. Where there is a way in, there is a way out. Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold

“Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.

Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Do the dead frighten you?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes”
― George RR Martin

“The septons preach about the seven hells. What do they know? Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like"
...She was sad for him, she realized. Somehow, the fear had gone away.
The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. She found his massive shoulder with her hand. "He was no true knight," she whispered to him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Things are not always as they seemed, Much that may seem evil can be good.”
― George R.R. Martin

“They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Hodor?"
"Hodor.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“One of two things will happen. Either the dead will defeat the living, in which case all our troubles come to end. Or life will win out. And what then? Don’t fight in the North or the South. Fight every battle everywhere, always. in your mind. Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend. Every possible series of events is happening all at once. Live that way and nothing will surprise you. Everything that happens will be something that you’ve seen before.”
― Littlefinger