George R. R. Martin Men Quotations [Page 2]

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.

All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

The man who never reads lives only one.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

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

Men have scars, women mysteries.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?” she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?” She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?” She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.