Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

254. “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

255. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

257. “Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.”

— George R.R. Martin

258. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

262. “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

263. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

265. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

267. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

269. “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

270. “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

271. “Wine makes all things possible.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

277. “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

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

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

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

— George R.R. Martin

283. “A broken sword can be reforged.”

— George R.R. Martin

284. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

286. “Familiarity is the father of acceptance.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

294. “Men have scars, women mysteries.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

297. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

299. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin