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Quotes About Consequences

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.
~ George R.R. Martin
She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.
~ George R.R. Martin
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
~ George R.R. Martin
The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm, while if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
~ George R.R. Martin
No Queen has clean hands.
~ George R.R. Martin
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
~ George R.R. Martin
Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'" "No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
~ George R.R. Martin
Cuando se juega al juego de tronos sólo se puede ganar o morir. No hay puntos intermedios. Cersei Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
En malas manos, una moneda es tan peligrosa como una espada.
~ George R.R. Martin
Una vez el Septon Supremo me dijo que el sufrimiento es el precio que pagamos por nuestros pecados. Si eso es cierto, decidme, Lord Eddard... ¿por qué son siempre los inocentes los que más sufren cuando vosotros, los grandes señores, jugáis al juego de tronos?
~ George R.R. Martin
Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
~ George R.R. Martin
No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.
~ George R.R. Martin
All kings must be butchers or meat.
~ George R.R. Martin
Las cosas que amamos siempre acaban por destruirnos.
~ George R.R. Martin
Once a turncloak, ever a turncloak," Lord Cregan said. "You rose up in rebellion against your lawful queen and helped drive her from this city to her death, raised up your own squire in her place, then abandoned him to save your worthless hide. The realm will be a better place without you." When Ser Perkin protested that he had been pardoned for those crimes, Lord Stark replied, "Not by me.
~ George R.R. Martin
A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'll have no songs about how brave you died, Kingmaker. There's tens o'thousands dead on your account.
~ George R.R. Martin
With scarcely a moment's respite, they began to play a very different sort of song. No one sang the words, but Catelyn knew "The Rains of Castamere" when she heard it. Edwyn was hurrying toward a door. She hurried faster, driven by the music. Six quick strides and she caught him. And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
~ George R.R. Martin
Salt a slug and shame a hero.
~ George R.R. Martin
Cersei will send men after you, I have no doubt. You might do well to take another name." "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.
~ George R.R. Martin
Guard your tongue before it digs your grave.
~ George R.R. Martin
Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. "If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser.
~ George R.R. Martin