George R. R. Martin Quotes

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly fu...

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.Arya knew which prince she m...

Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh...

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he wou...

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to f...

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ...

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Wolves and women wed for life.

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everyt...

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of ...

...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the p...

I only need half my wits to be a match for you.

Shall I prick my prick as well?

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a part...

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be war...

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing a...

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was ...

Maris sighed, and put a gentle hand on his arm. "We'll do what we must, Coll. We have no choice." He...

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will b...

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one...

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a deci...

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality...

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be...

All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.

We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire e...

The dog barked and wagged his tail. He was a huge, shaggy creature, ten stone of dog at least, but f...

It’s you and me that matters to me and you.

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep brea...

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the...

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, bec...

It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of...

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was...

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a ...

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as th...

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fier...

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it oft...

…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.”“Even the lies?”“Especially ...

Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved f...

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...

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

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the nig...

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the w...

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

Ice can kill as dead as fire.

Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky...

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspic...

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few su...

Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, ...

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

There’s always a bear,

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. ...

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime r...

What fire joins none man can put aside,

Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He’s ...

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...

No man should live longer than his teeth.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors...

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to ...

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worshi...

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.