The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

I have been despised by better men than you.

...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.

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.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.