Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “The years leech at a man’s memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.”

— George R.R. Martin

352. “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

353. “Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best.” “The best and the worst.” So one of us is like to live in song. “And a few who were a bit of both. Like him.” He tapped the page he had been reading. “Who?” Ser Loras craned his head around to see. “Ten black pellets on a scarlet field. I do not know those arms.” “They belonged to Criston Cole, who served the first Viserys and the second Aegon.” Jaime closed the White Book. “They called him Kingmaker.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

355. “War makes monsters of us all.”

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

— George R.R. Martin

357. “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

358. “Kill me, and be cursed. You are no king of mine.”

— George R.R. Martin

359. “His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.”

— George R.R. Martin

360. “She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.”

— George R.R. Martin

361. “In King’s Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.”

— George R.R. Martin

362. “And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.”

— George R.R. Martin

363. “Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I’ll honor you again.”

— George R.R. Martin

364. “Strength to your arm, then.”

— George R.R. Martin

365. “I’ll pay her bloody ransom. Gold, sapphires, whatever you want. Pull her out of there.” “You want her? Go get her.” So he did.”

— George R.R. Martin

366. “You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”

— George R.R. Martin

367. “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

368. “She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.”

— George R.R. Martin

369. “I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.”

— George R.R. Martin

370. “One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.”

— George R.R. Martin

371. “If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?”

— George R.R. Martin

372. “Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.”

— George R.R. Martin

373. “Generally speaking, I’m much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.”

— George R.R. Martin

374. “This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.”

— George R.R. Martin

375. “Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said. Look down.”

— George R.R. Martin

376. “You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.”

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377. “Dark wings, dark words.”

— George R.R. Martin

378. “When the hammer shall fall upon the dragon, a new king shall arise, and none shall stand before him.”

— George R.R. Martin

379. “Don’t write outlines; I hate outlines.”

— George R.R. Martin

380. “The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.”

— George R.R. Martin

381. “This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.”

— George R.R. Martin

382. “You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn’t the end and there’s something more, but I can’t convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.”

— George R.R. Martin

383. “Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.”

— George R.R. Martin

384. “She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.”

— George R.R. Martin

385. “Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.”

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386. “Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.”

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387. “He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”

— George R.R. Martin

388. “What would a Frey know of honor? – Sir Davos Seaworth.”

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389. “It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.”

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390. “Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H’ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.”

— George R.R. Martin

391. “Tell Robb that I’m going to command the Night’s Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. – Jon Snow.”

— George R.R. Martin

392. “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

393. “Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

395. “This is so,” Illyrio agreed, “but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. More wine?”

— George R.R. Martin

396. “Jon Snow: I’m not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.”

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397. “Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter.”

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398. “There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.”

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399. “An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child’s riddle?”

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400. “What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves...”

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