George R. R. Martin Men Quotations

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

A mad man sees what he sees.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

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

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.

Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.

Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all. (Tyrion Lannister)

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.” --- Jaqen H’ghar, A Clash of Kings

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

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.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

There are no men like me. There's only me

Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...

That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

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

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

I have been despised by better men than you.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

Men see what they expect to see.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

Valar Morghulis- All men must die

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

Books are dead men talking.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?

What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

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

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.