I.B. George Quotes

If I look back I am lost.

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

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

Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

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.

What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I do it.

There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

The only game. The game of thrones.

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

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

Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "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.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you." [Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice." Page 58

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.