Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

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.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.