George R.R. Martin Quotes - Page 2

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."

"Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?"

"How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

Every flight begins with a fall

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shave', Arya said.
'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life.

If walls could keep us small peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Let them mock, Bran thought. No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.