We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

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.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.