George R.r. Martin Quotes

The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ George R.r. Martin

Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

~ George R.r. Martin

Beauty can be treacherous.

~ George R.r. Martin

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

~ George R.r. Martin

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

~ George R.r. Martin

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

~ George R.r. Martin

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

~ George R.r. Martin

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

~ George R.r. Martin

Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

~ George R.r. Martin

One King means peace.

~ George R.r. Martin

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

~ George R.r. Martin

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

~ George R.r. Martin

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

~ George R.r. Martin

A man who hates music can't be trusted.

~ George R.r. Martin

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

~ George R.r. Martin

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

~ George R.r. Martin

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

~ George R.r. Martin

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

~ George R.r. Martin

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

~ George R.r. Martin

Shall I prick my prick as well?

~ George R.r. Martin

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

~ George R.r. Martin

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

~ George R.r. Martin

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

~ George R.r. Martin

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

~ George R.r. Martin

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

~ George R.r. Martin

There is power in a King's blood.

~ George R.r. Martin

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

~ George R.r. Martin

I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.(Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark)

~ George R.r. Martin

Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave

~ George R.r. Martin

Harsh justice is still justice.

~ George R.r. Martin

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

~ George R.r. Martin

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.

~ George R.r. Martin

There is no shame in loving.

~ George R.r. Martin

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

~ George R.r. Martin

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

~ George R.r. Martin

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.

~ George R.r. Martin

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

~ George R.r. Martin

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

~ George R.r. Martin

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die.

~ George R.r. Martin