Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.”

— George R.R. Martin

102. “Chaos is a ladder.”

— George R.R. Martin

103. “The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.”

— George R.R. Martin

104. “Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”

— George R.R. Martin

105. “The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.”

— George R.R. Martin

106. “Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.”

— George R.R. Martin

107. “If I look back I am lost.”

— George R.R. Martin

108. “My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

— George R.R. Martin

109. “I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.”

— George R.R. Martin

110. “There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.”

— George R.R. Martin

111. “I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.”

— George R.R. Martin

112. “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

113. “Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.”

— George R.R. Martin

114. “The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.”

— George R.R. Martin

115. “Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”

— George R.R. Martin

116. “Laughter is poison to fear.”

— George R.R. Martin

117. “Power resides where men believe it resides.”

— George R.R. Martin

118. “And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”

— George R.R. Martin

119. “It doesn’t matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else.” – Lord Baelish.”

— George R.R. Martin

120. “A man who won’t listen can’t hear.”

— George R.R. Martin

121. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.”

— George R.R. Martin

122. “Some doors are best left closed.”

— George R.R. Martin

123. “As we sin, so do we suffer.”

— George R.R. Martin

124. “In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.”

— George R.R. Martin

125. “I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”

— George R.R. Martin

126. “I would choose freedom over comfort every time.”

— George R.R. Martin

127. “Trust is earned. Like gold.”

— George R.R. Martin

128. “And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.”

— George R.R. Martin

129. “If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.”

— George R.R. Martin

130. “A frightened man is a beaten man.”

— George R.R. Martin

131. “Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.”

— George R.R. Martin

132. “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”

— George R.R. Martin

133. “Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

— George R.R. Martin

134. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”

— George R.R. Martin

135. “The women are the strong ones, truly.”

— George R.R. Martin

136. “Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?”

— George R.R. Martin

137. “A mad man sees what he sees.”

— George R.R. Martin

138. “In the end words are just wind.”

— George R.R. Martin

139. “When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you.”

— George R.R. Martin

140. “They hate you because you act like you’re better than they are.”

— George R.R. Martin

141. “What the King dreams, the Hand builds.”

— George R.R. Martin

142. “You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...”

— George R.R. Martin

143. “Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

— George R.R. Martin

144. “Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.”

— George R.R. Martin

145. “Kings have no friends, just subjects and enemies.”

— George R.R. Martin

146. “Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. – Areo Hotah.”

— George R.R. Martin

147. “Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.”

— George R.R. Martin

148. “When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”

— George R.R. Martin

149. “Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”

— George R.R. Martin

150. “I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?”

— George R.R. Martin