George R R Martin Quotes

All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live. -Ygritte

They stepped past the eunuch into a pillared courtyard overgrown in pale ivy.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon

What a man can do and what a man will do are two different things.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

You don't need a longsword to deal with jellied calves' brains.
- Catelyn Stark

In my experience, eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

Talking gargoyles and prophecies in the sky. I am an old done man, grown giddy as a child again.

However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.

Only man stripped the skins from other beasts and wore their hides and hair.

What sort of man would proclaim himself a coward?

A clever slave deserves a clever master, and you lot all look like fools.

The hill was a stony island in a sea of green.

Terror filled her. She could not go back and she was afraid to stay here, but how could she go on? - Dany

Cold fingers walked down Arya's neck. Fear cuts deeper than swords, she reminded herself.

He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.

In his dreams Jaime always had two hands; one was made of gold, but it worked just like the other.

Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

Targaryen wed Khal Drogo with

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground.

I am queen of the Seven Kingdoms, not a brood mare!

Sometimes prayers are answered." Jon

The mystery knight prevails against all challengers, and wonder dances in his wake.

You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

If she pops out sons the way she pops in tarts, the Dreadfort will soon be overrun with Boltons.

The scent of blood or the scent of gold, they smell the same in the end.

We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?'
'Because of men like you.

Time slept when swords woke.

Four whores were seated near the door, drinking.

I'm short not blind

The Drowned God plays savage japes upon us all, but men are crueler still.

And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolves, and the wind itself was their song.

The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.

There's much to be said for taking people unawares. You never know what you might learn.

The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood.

Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few.

The hero never dies, though. I must be the hero.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved.

Silence sometimes yielded more than questions.

I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago.
We all did. Once I was as young as you.

If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey's head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.

You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

Or wolves." "Dogs, wolves,

Surely the land has bled enough.

A sweet offer . . . yet sweets can be poisoned.

I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.

There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.

A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes.

The high and humble crowded into the sept together to pray.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

I'm not him, I'm not the turncloak, he died at Winterfell. My name is Reek, It rhymes with freak

You're asking a lame man to teach a cripple how to dance, Tyrion said.

The sea is colder than a maiden and crueler than a whore.

Though neither Queen Cersei nor Queen Margaery was amongst them, their presence could be felt poisoning the air, like ghosts at a feast.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Yet in its own way, death is the most natural thing of all

Dead, all dead but me, and I am dead to the world.

Arya did not know any Many-Faced God, but if he answered prayers, he might be the god she sought.

Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

One blast?" On his shoulder, his raven sat fluffed and silent, looking miserable. "One, my lord," Jon agreed. "Brothers returning." Mormont

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

What is dead can never die.

Only a fool would ever claim she was more beautiful than I. The world was full of fools, however.

In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

I am the sword in the darkness.

If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life? - Qyburn

If is a word for fools.

That's pretty. He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name.

Let them say what they will. I can still fly.
- Earl Sanderson, Jr.

Calm as still water. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine.

She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.

Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat.

I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it. And

Dreams and prophecies. Why must they always be in riddles? I hate this.

Even now, he was a Stark of Winterfell, and his grief and his rage froze hard inside him.

The gods play cruel jests, Jon thought.

It was an art, and like all arts it demanded mastery, discipline, study. Pain. That too.

He slept with a ghost beside him, a supernaturally beautiful ghost, the husk of a dead dream. He woke to her each morning.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Friendly had never liked to rock boats unnecessarily. That's how people end up drowned.

Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

People never looked up.

You would do well to know about the lives of those who went before.

The local fisherfolk were tying up for the night and crying the day's catch, but

the man as asks the question must bear the answer.