A Game of Thrones Quotes

You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

You can’t hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn’t mean tin is useless.

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

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms…or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you…

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

Winter is coming.[repeated often in the rest of the book]

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.

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