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

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

You mistake patience for forbearance.