Quotes from George R. R. Martin

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A frightened man is a beaten man.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

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.

Books are dead men talking.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

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.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

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.

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.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

...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.