Quotes About Character

Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.

on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

A grey man," she said. "Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?" "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.

He is fair of face and foul of heart.

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

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?

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

Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes … we have plenty, as do you.

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

Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.

Ser Barristan," she called, "I know what quality a king needs most." "Courage, Your Grace?" "Cheeks like iron," she teased. "All I do is sit.

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...

Ser Jorah was not a handsome man. He had a neck and shoulders like a bull, and coarse black hair covered his arms and chest so thickly that there was none left for his head.

Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.

No ruler can make a people good.

When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder." Jon smiled. "Toad sometimes sings too, if you call it singing. Drinking songs he learned in his father's winesink. Pyp says his voice is piss poured over a fart.

I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.

His grace is not an easy man. Few are, who wear a crown. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.

Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won't like what you'd become.

My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his wroth, not the one between his legs. - Arianne

Why does a bear shit in the woods?" he demanded. "Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man

Was there ever a man as beautiful or as vile as this one?

How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?