Quotes About Restraint

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

Some things are best left unsaid, sweetling." "Even when we are alone?" "*Especially* when we are alone.

Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

Sometimes nothing is the hardest thing to do. - Tyrrion Lannister

soothe the wrath and tame the fury, teach us all a kinder way

A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Men like us — up to a point — we're more careful when we're drunk. But once we get past that point, we don't give a damn.

You've not got much to say for yourself, but that's a nice change in a girl.

La noblesse vient de l'émotion contenue

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

Praise the sea, but keep on land.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!