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.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

There are no men like me. There's only me

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I was not always a man of woe.

People should always know better.