Quotes About Loyalty

You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?" "I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?

She don't speak," said the big man in the yellow cloak. "You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers." He turned to the dead woman and said, "What do you say, m'lady? Was he part of it?" Lady Catelyn's eyes never left him. She nodded.

The Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep the blood line pure.

In a world so full of treachery, that was worth a few kisses.

The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.

Once a turncloak, ever a turncloak," Lord Cregan said. "You rose up in rebellion against your lawful queen and helped drive her from this city to her death, raised up your own squire in her place, then abandoned him to save your worthless hide. The realm will be a better place without you." When Ser Perkin protested that he had been pardoned for those crimes, Lord Stark replied, "Not by me.

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.

The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved.

We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more.

Night's Watch takes no part, so no man's our enemy." "And no man's our friend, she thought.

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

Wolves and women wed for life.

Lady, I have never been a hero, no Ryam Redwyne or Barristan the Bold. I've won no tourneys, no renown in war... but I was a knight once, and you have helped me remember what that meant. My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.

I do solemnly proclaim Tyrion of House Lannister and Sansa of House Stark to be man and wife, one flesh, one heart, one soul, now and forever, and cursed be the one who comes between them.

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

Jaehaerys the Conciliator would sit the Iron Throne for fifty-five years, and many a knight would wear a white cloak in his service during that long reign, more than any other monarch could boast. But it was rightly said that never did any Targaryen possess a Kingsguard who could equal the boy king's first Seven.

People work together when it suits them. They're loyal when it suits them. They love each other when it suits them. And they kill each other when it suits them.

If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

I will not eat Craster's food, he decided suddenly. "I broke my fast with the men, my lord." Jon shooed the raven off Longclaw. The bird hopped back to Mormont's shoulder, where it promptly shat. "You might have done that on Snow instead of saving it for me," the Old Bear grumbled. The raven quorked.

Hodor, hush," said Bran. "Be quiet now. No more stupid hodoring.

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.