This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

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.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion