Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.”

— George R.R. Martin

252. “Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it.”

— George R.R. Martin

253. “The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”

— George R.R. Martin

254. “The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.”

— George R.R. Martin

255. “History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.”

— George R.R. Martin

256. “We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. “The wildlings are dead.” “Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.”

— George R.R. Martin

257. “She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.”

— George R.R. Martin

258. “Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.”

— George R.R. Martin

259. “Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.”

— George R.R. Martin

260. “Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

262. “Blood calls to blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

265. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

267. “My enemies are legion.”

— George R.R. Martin

268. “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

269. “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

270. “The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

275. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

279. “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

280. “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

281. “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

282. “Wine makes all things possible.”

— George R.R. Martin

283. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

285. “If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

287. “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

288. “I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

293. “A broken sword can be reforged.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

295. “Familiarity is the father of acceptance.”

— George R.R. Martin

296. “Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.”

— George R.R. Martin

297. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin