Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “In this world, only winter is certain.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

153. “In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.”

— George R.R. Martin

154. “Nothing burns like the cold.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

157. “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

159. “Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know.”

— George R.R. Martin

160. “The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.”

— George R.R. Martin

161. “But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy?”

— George R.R. Martin

162. “I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

163. “Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

165. “We’re all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.”

— George R.R. Martin

166. “And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.”

— George R.R. Martin

167. “I have been despised by better men than you.”

— George R.R. Martin

168. “Fire consumes, but cold preserves.”

— George R.R. Martin

169. “The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.”

— George R.R. Martin

170. “You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.”

— George R.R. Martin

171. “Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

— George R.R. Martin

172. “Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

174. “Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.”

— George R.R. Martin

175. “I have won every battle, yet somehow I’m losing the war.”

— George R.R. Martin

176. “Reading. That was the sport I was good at.”

— George R.R. Martin

177. “Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. – Jon Snow.”

— George R.R. Martin

178. “The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.”

— George R.R. Martin

179. “When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.”

— George R.R. Martin

180. “How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?”

— George R.R. Martin

181. “A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.”

— George R.R. Martin

182. “There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.”

— George R.R. Martin

183. “A sweet face oft hides a sinner’s heart.”

— George R.R. Martin

184. “I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.”

— George R.R. Martin

185. “Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.”

— George R.R. Martin

186. “I’ve always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they’re still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.”

— George R.R. Martin

187. “Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.”

— George R.R. Martin

188. “You’ve got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.”

— George R.R. Martin

189. “Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.”

— George R.R. Martin

190. “She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.”

— George R.R. Martin

191. “Historical fiction is not history. You’re blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.”

— George R.R. Martin

192. “The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.”

— George R.R. Martin

193. “Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.”

— George R.R. Martin

194. “We only make peace with our enemies. That’s why it’s called making peace.”

— George R.R. Martin

195. “You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.”

— George R.R. Martin

196. “If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.”

— George R.R. Martin

197. “A long summer always meant a long winter to come.”

— George R.R. Martin

198. “Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.”

— George R.R. Martin

199. “When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.”

— George R.R. Martin

200. “Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.”

— George R.R. Martin