Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

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

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.

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

I don't think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.