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Quotes About Betrayal

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
~ George R.R. Martin
When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
~ George R.R. Martin
Whore!" someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.
~ George R.R. Martin
I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm's End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest." He looked at Jaime defiantly. "I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.
~ George R.R. Martin
Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya
~ George R.R. Martin
The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.
~ George R.R. Martin
He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)
~ George R.R. Martin
What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth
~ George R.R. Martin
I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.
~ George R.R. Martin
Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.
~ George R.R. Martin
And the crow once called the raven black.
~ George R.R. Martin
The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
~ George R.R. Martin
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
~ George R.R. Martin
Is it all lies, forever and ever, everyone and everything?" - Sansa
~ George R.R. Martin
Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.
~ George R.R. Martin
My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark." "I hear he was taller." "Not after Joff took off his head.
~ George R.R. Martin
I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself.
~ George R.R. Martin
You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.
~ George R.R. Martin
The king eats, they say, and the Hand takes the shit.
~ George R.R. Martin
The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune.
~ George R.R. Martin
Tell me again what you saved.'' ''Your life'' Daenerys, said. Mirri Maz Duur laughed cruelly. ''Look to your khal and see what life is worth when all the rest is gone.
~ George R.R. Martin
And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ygritte was much in his thoughts as well. He remembered the smell of her hair, the warmth of her body... and the look on her face as she slit the old man's throat. You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted.
~ George R.R. Martin