"When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say "I am the king" is no king at all."

"Some would say it's a poor king who crowns himself with bronze, Your Grace" "Bronze and iron are stronger than gold and silver"

"There's a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid."

"The old gods paid no more heed to prayer than the new ones, it would seem. Perhaps he should take comfort in that."

"There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them."

"A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother."

"You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men."

"Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you."

"I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal."

"All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live."

"That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf, and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons."

"It does not matter how brave or brilliant a man is, if his commands cannot be heard."

"The oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both."

"If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you."

"Maybe we can save her!" "Maybe you can. I'm not done living yet."

"He was tempted to ask what she prayed for, but Sansa was so dutiful she might actually tell him, and he didn't think he wanted to know."

"Men can't own the land no more'n they can own the sea or the sky."

"We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky."

"An ant who hears the words of a king may not comprehend what he is saying ... If sometimes I have mistaken a warning for a prophecy, or a prophecy for a warning, the fault lies in the reader, not the book."

"Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner."

"I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivlary. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young."

"The best way to learn a thing was to do it, he had found; sails or scrolls, it made no matter."

"Well, you gave the singers something to make rhymes about, I suppose that's not to be despised."

"A smuggler had best know men as well as tides, or he would not live to smuggle long."

"I'd sooner be stolen by a strong man than be given t'some weakling by my father."

"Gold has its uses, but wars are won with iron."

"“Her name is Brienne,” Jaime said. “Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?” Her broad homely face turned red. “Yes.” ”Oh, good,” Jaime said. “I only rescue maidens.”"

"Men are seldom as they appear. You look so very guilty that I am convinced of your innocence."

"A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

"They feared the man I was; the man I am they'd pity."

"“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What...what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.”"

"A valiant deed unsung is no less valiant."

"The boar can keep his tusks and the bear his claws. There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather."

"Is there anything so disgusting as frozen sweat?"

""The Wall will stop them," Jon heard himself say. He turned and said it again louder. "The Wall will stop them. The Wall defends itself." Hollow words, but he needed to say them, almost as much as his brothers needed to hear them."

"A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it."

"Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been." Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?" That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter."

"Arya was tired of making for Riverrun. She had been making for Riverrun for years, it seemed, without ever getting there. Every time she made for Riverrun, she ended up someplace worse."

"Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure."

"Even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred and first."

"All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it."

"“You are not wrong.” Jon said. “I do not know. And if the gods are good, I never will.” “The gods are seldom good, Jon Snow.”"

"Sins can be forgiven. Crimes require punishment."

"A swift sword stroke is a better defense than any shield"

"A man who fears battle wins no victories ..."

"Wizards may be well and good, but blood and steel win wars."

"Glory is good, but gold is better."

"A man is never so vulnerable in battle as when he flees. A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up."