Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.”

— George R.R. Martin

252. “The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.”

— George R.R. Martin

253. “And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.”

— George R.R. Martin

254. “I could keep you safe,” he rasped. “They’re all afraid of me. No one would hurt you again, or I’d kill them -Sandor Clegane.”

— George R.R. Martin

255. “Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”

— George R.R. Martin

256. “Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.”

— George R.R. Martin

257. “Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.”

— George R.R. Martin

258. “And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all.”

— George R.R. Martin

259. “The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I’m not dead either.”

— George R.R. Martin

260. “You little fool. Tears are not a woman’s only weapon. You’ve got another one between your legs, and you’d best learn to use it. You’ll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.”

— George R.R. Martin

261. “When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it.”

— George R.R. Martin

262. “A crown should not sit easy on the head.”

— George R.R. Martin

263. “I need to sleep, but fear to dream.”

— George R.R. Martin

264. “He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.”

— George R.R. Martin

265. “Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”

— George R.R. Martin

266. “Wine makes all things possible.”

— George R.R. Martin

267. “Like their dragons, the Targaryens answered to neither gods nor men.”

— George R.R. Martin

268. “The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark.”

— George R.R. Martin

269. “People work together when it suits them. They’re loyal when it suits them. They love each other when it suits them. And they kill each other when it suits them.”

— George R.R. Martin

270. “Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.”

— George R.R. Martin

271. “Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.”

— George R.R. Martin

272. “Nothing’ isn’t better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing.” Arya Stark.”

— George R.R. Martin

273. “Politicians were mostly people who’d had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.”

— George R.R. Martin

274. “It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword.”

— George R.R. Martin

275. “It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.”

— George R.R. Martin

276. “All my life men like you’ve sneered at me, and all my life I’ve been knocking men like you into the dust.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

278. “He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

280. “I do so hope he plays us ‘The Rains of Castamere.’ It has been an hour. I’ve forgotten how it goes – Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC.”

— George R.R. Martin

281. “All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.”

— George R.R. Martin

282. “Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.”

— George R.R. Martin

283. “The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.”

— George R.R. Martin

284. “The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.”

— George R.R. Martin

285. “I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.”

— George R.R. Martin

286. “A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.”

— George R.R. Martin

287. “Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that’s too cruel.”

— George R.R. Martin

288. “A broken sword can be reforged.”

— George R.R. Martin

289. “You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”

— George R.R. Martin

290. “All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

292. “No one who wears a crown is ever safe.”

— George R.R. Martin

293. “I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?”

— George R.R. Martin

294. “Men have scars, women mysteries.”

— George R.R. Martin

295. “I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone’s.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

297. “And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”

— George R.R. Martin

298. “Hodor!”

— George R.R. Martin

299. “In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you’ve planned for them.”

— George R.R. Martin

300. “Familiarity is the father of acceptance.”

— George R.R. Martin