Quotes About Integrity

Tell me that none of this troubles you, Jon...and I'll name you a liar, and know I have the truth of it. Jon drew himself up, taut as a bowstring. And if it did trouble me, what might I do, bastard as I am? What will you do? Mormont asked. Bastard as you are? Be troubled, said Jon, and keep my vows.

Her father said there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear. "All men live with fear," he said.

I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face." He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinching her painfully. "And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song.

The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon

The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.

If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

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

There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.

I will not deny that Bael's exploit inspired mine own . . . but I did not steal either of your sisters that I recall. Bael wrote his own songs, and lived them. I only sing the songs that better men have made.

He may not look as tall or strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them." - Lysa

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.

Give me your word that you'll tell the queen what she wants to hear when she comes calling." "If I did, my word would be as hollow as an empty suit of armor. My life is not so precious to me as that.

Would you throw your life away for pride?

She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher.

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.

A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.

In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.

Am I still a thief if I put it all back and no one ever knows?

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.