Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.”

— George R.R. Martin

302. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

304. “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

305. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

307. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

310. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

313. “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

314. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

318. “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

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

325. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

329. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

342. “Blood calls to blood.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

344. “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

345. “My enemies are legion.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

347. “The years leech at a man’s memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.”

— George R.R. Martin

348. “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

349. “I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.”

— George R.R. Martin

350. “Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.”

— George R.R. Martin