Top 500 George R.R. Martin Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I’ve created, especially the viewpoint characters.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

353. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

357. “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

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

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359. “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

360. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

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

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

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364. “IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.”

— George R.R. Martin

365. “War makes monsters of us all.”

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

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367. “Strength to your arm, then.”

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368. “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

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

— George R.R. Martin

370. “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.”

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

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

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373. “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

374. “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.”

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

— George R.R. Martin

376. “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

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

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

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379. “I’m sorry that I never trusted you. I don’t know how to do that anymore.”

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

— George R.R. Martin

381. “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

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

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

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384. “Fierce as a wolverine, calm as still water.”

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385. “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

386. “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

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

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

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

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390. “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

391. “Dark wings, dark words.”

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392. “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

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

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394. “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

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

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396. “In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.”

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

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

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

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400. “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