Men Quotes

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

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.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

Men see what they expect to see.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

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

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

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

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

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

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

Books are dead men talking.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

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.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.