Quotes About Strategy

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?" "If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

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.

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.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

Cuando se juega al juego de tronos sólo se puede ganar o morir. No hay puntos intermedios. Cersei Lannister

You win or you die.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers." "Who was I supposed to play with?" "Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?" "Well enough to play." "But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.

He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

Valor is a poor substitute for numbers

Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear.