Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “More details, more devils.”

— George R.R. Martin

252. “You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.”

— George R.R. Martin

253. “Sleep is good. Books are better.”

— George R.R. Martin

254. “No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.”

— George R.R. Martin

255. “You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.”

— George R.R. Martin

256. “Do the dead frighten you?”

— George R.R. Martin

257. “Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.”

— George R.R. Martin

258. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

262. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

264. “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

265. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

267. “Blood calls to blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

268. “There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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272. “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

273. “My enemies are legion.”

— George R.R. Martin

274. “IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

276. “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

277. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

282. “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

283. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

285. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

287. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

289. “Wine makes all things possible.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

291. “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

292. “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

293. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

296. “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

297. “Familiarity is the father of acceptance.”

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin