What the King dreams, the Hand builds.
The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
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.