In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.