Quotes from George R. R. Martin

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

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

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

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

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.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

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

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.

Men see what they expect to see.

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

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

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?

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

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