Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

304. “He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.”

— George R.R. Martin

305. “It’s really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he’s the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don’t like it.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

308. “Men have scars, women mysteries.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

310. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

312. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

319. “Hodor!”

— George R.R. Martin

320. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

324. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

326. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

329. “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

330. “I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

332. “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

333. “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

334. “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

335. “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

336. “It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold.”

— George R.R. Martin

337. “His manhood glistened wetly.”

— George R.R. Martin

338. “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

339. “They would not love me living, so let them dread me dead.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

341. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

343. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

347. “You know I’ve always considered women to be people.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin