Quotes About Ambition

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.

I have made kings and unmade them. Sansa Stark is my last chance for honor.

Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon's gullet.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.

Davos said. 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.

He was not born wealthy. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Esistono due tipi di persone ad Approdo del Re: i giocatori e le pedine. Petyr Baelish "Littlefinger

The game of thrones takes many a queer turn.

I want her, he realized. I want Winterfell, yes, but I want her as well, child or woman or whatever she is. I want to comfort her. I want to hear her laugh. I want her to come to me willingly, to bring me her joys and her sorrows and her lust. His mouth twisted in a bitter smile. Yes, and I want to be tall as Jaime and as strong as Ser Gregor the Mountain too, for all the bloody good it does.

Cersei always resented being excluded from power on account of her sex.

Shit and piss and trash were thrown from windows to the distant street until rain came to wash them away, and like plants in rich soil, the unstable, unreliable buildings rose, driven by the deep human desire to be the one least shat upon.

George R.R. Martin

Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, Cersei Lannister had told him in the godswood.

We are the ironborn, and once we were conquerors. Our writ ran everywhere the sound of the waves was heard. My brother would have be content with the cold and dismal north, my niece with even less ... but I shall give you Lannisport. Highgarden. The Arbor. Oldtown. The riverlands and the Reach, the kingswood and the rainwood, Dorne and the marches, the Mountains of the Moon and the Vale of Arryn, Tarth and the Stepstones. I say we take it all! I say, we take Westeros.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered. Farms

Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

O que é o desejo do nosso coração?" "A vingança," a voz dele era baixa, como se tivesse receio de que alguém estivesse ouvindo. "A justiça," Príncipe Doran pressionou o dragão de ônix contra a palma da mão dela com seus dedos inchados e gotosos, e murmurou "Fogo e sangue.

I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones.

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.

When the gold was half-melted and starting to run, Drogo reached into the flames, snatched out the pot. "Crown!" he roared. "Here. A crown for Cart King!" And upended the pot over the head of the man who had been her brother.

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. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn. Now,

Viserys says he could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers." Ser Jorah snorted. "Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.