Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

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

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.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

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.