Quotes from Ice and Fire

Not all risks lead to ruin.

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

There will be more, and worse. These creatures have no sweeter joy in life than jeering at their betters.

No man has ever died from bending his knee. He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.

There is always someone quicker and stronger. He’s the man you want to face in the yard before you need to face his like upon a battlefield.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

I  was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you.

And small men curse what they cannot understand.

“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. And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.”

I used to be scared of Jon, whenever I had to fight him. He was so quick, and he fought like he meant to kill me. I never said, though. Sometimes, I think everyone is pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

You ought to dress in black feathers, Varys, you're as bad an omen as any raven.

The day is won, and yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

Daenerys: “What do you want? Tell me.”

Margaery: "Calling yourself king doesn’t make you one. And if Renly wasn’t a king, I wasn’t a queen.”