Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

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

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.