Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

304. “Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.”

— George R.R. Martin

305. “Hodor!”

— George R.R. Martin

306. “Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman’s weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man’s weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn’t it?”

— George R.R. Martin

307. “Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn’t start with Mount Everest. So if you’re starting fantasy, don’t start with a nine-book series.”

— George R.R. Martin

308. “Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.”

— George R.R. Martin

309. “The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. – Lord Commander Mormont.”

— George R.R. Martin

310. “Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.”

— George R.R. Martin

311. “No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves...”

— George R.R. Martin

312. “Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.”

— George R.R. Martin

313. “It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.”

— George R.R. Martin

314. “Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.”

— George R.R. Martin

315. “And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

317. “A man could not always be where he belonged, though.”

— George R.R. Martin

318. “Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.”

— George R.R. Martin

319. “His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.”

— George R.R. Martin

320. “Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.”

— George R.R. Martin

321. “Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.”

— George R.R. Martin

322. “The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you’re trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.”

— George R.R. Martin

323. “Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.”

— George R.R. Martin

324. “Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.”

— George R.R. Martin

325. “The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.”

— George R.R. Martin

326. “Ah, I could tell you everything about her. Who she was, how we met, the color of her eyes, and the shape of her nose. I can see her, right in front of me. She’s more real than you are.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

328. “I don’t want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.”

— George R.R. Martin

329. “Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. – Daenerys Targaryen.”

— George R.R. Martin

330. “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”

— George R.R. Martin

331. “The night is dark and full of turnips,” he announced in a solemn voice. “Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

333. “The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life.”

— George R.R. Martin

334. “I love you too, sweet sister. But you’re a fool. A beautiful golden fool.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

336. “Blood calls to blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

337. “The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”

— George R.R. Martin

338. “Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.”

— George R.R. Martin

339. “I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I’ve created, especially the viewpoint characters.”

— George R.R. Martin

340. “Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.”

— George R.R. Martin

341. “Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.”

— George R.R. Martin

342. “I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.”

— George R.R. Martin

343. “I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.”

— George R.R. Martin

344. “My enemies are legion.”

— George R.R. Martin

345. “Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That’s my main concern, and always will be.”

— George R.R. Martin

346. “Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man’s nature. – Lyanna.”

— George R.R. Martin

347. “The gods heard my prayer, she thought. She felt so numb and dreamy. My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

— George R.R. Martin

348. “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don’t tell me to leave.”

— George R.R. Martin

349. “A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

— George R.R. Martin

350. “Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.”

— George R.R. Martin