Quotes by George R.R. Martin

I will hurt you for this. I dont know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and youll know the debt is paid.

Flies are the dead mans revenge.

Its death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know whats on the other side?

Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

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.

They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,

No man should live longer than his teeth.

There’s always a bear,

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

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

A sweet fruit for a sweet fight.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.