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70 Best Game of Thrones Quotes from the Books and Television set Series

Well, whether you loved or hated the hotly contested final season of HBO'southward Game of Thrones series, we can bet on one thing: you're sad to say cheerio to Sun nights spent watching the Seven Kingdoms battle it out for the Atomic number 26 Throne. Truthful, we do have The Winds of Winter — the sixth installment in the book series — to look forwards to, simply we've already been waiting 8 years and its unclear when the wait will end.

And then, to tide you over in between the stop of the TV series and the await for the continuation of the book series, here are seventy of the all-time Game of Thrones quotes — half from the books and half from the show. Of form, many of the quotes from the Tv show section originate in the books, but they were just delivered so flawlessly by the actors, we had to requite HBO some credit.

And fair alert: this post does contain spoilers.



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Best Game of Thrones Quotes from the Books

one. "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to go on its edge." — Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

2. "A ruler who hides behind paid executioners shortly forgets what death is." — Ned Stark, A Game of Thrones

3. "Bran thought about information technology. 'Can a man still be brave if he's agape?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him." — Bran & Ned Stark, A Game of Thrones

4. "Expiry is so terribly last, while life is full of possibilities." — Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

5. "'Don't call me Lord Snowfall.' The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. 'Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words tin can cut you and you'll never exist free of the mockery. If they desire to requite you a proper name have information technology brand it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.'" — Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

6. "Fearfulness cuts deeper than swords." — Arya Stark, A Game of Thrones

7. "Laughter is poison to fear." — Catelyn Stark, A Game of Thrones

viii. "Some sometime wounds never truly heal, and drain again at the slightest word." — A Game of Thrones

9. "'The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summertime that never ends' Ser Jorah told her. 'It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long every bit they are left in peace.' He gave a shrug. 'They never are.'" — Jorah Mormont and Daenerys Tagaryen, A Game of Thrones

10. "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, y'all owe information technology to him to look into his optics and hear his terminal words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the human does not deserve to dice." — Ned Stark, A Game of Thrones

11. "The things nosotros love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that." — Commander Mormont, A Game of Thrones

12. "They say night'south beauties fade at dawn, and the children of vino are oft disowned in the morning light." — Barristan Selmy, A Game of Thrones

13. "We are merely human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our dandy glory, and our great tragedy." — Aemon Targaryen, A Game of Thrones

14. "What do we say to the Lord of Expiry? Not today." — Syrio Forel, A Game of Thrones

xv. "What is honor compared to a woman'due south love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the retentivity of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are simply human, and the gods have fashioned us for honey. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy." — Master Aemon, A Game of Thrones,

16. "When the snows fall and the white winds accident, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." — Ned Stark, A Game of Thrones

17."When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." — Cersei Lannister, A Game of Thrones

18. "Why is information technology that when one human being builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what'south on the other side?" — Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

xix. "Wind and words. We are only human being, and the gods have fashioned us for honey. That is our great celebrity, and our swell tragedy." — Jon Snow, A Game of Thrones

20. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Brand it your force. Then it can never be your weakness." — Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

21."Winter is coming." — A Game of Thrones

22. "I will injure you lot for this. I don't know how however, simply requite me time. A twenty-four hours will come when yous remember yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid." — Tyrion Lannister, A Clash of Kings

23. "People oftentimes merits to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up." — Tyrion Lannister, A Clash of Kings

24."When you lot tear out a human's natural language, y'all are not proving him a liar, yous're only telling the globe that you fear what he might say." — Tyrion Lannister, A Disharmonism of Kings

25. "Every homo must dice, Jon Snowfall. But first he must live." — Ygritte, A Tempest of Swords

26."Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as calorie-free every bit lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her confront to the heaven and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, gustation information technology on her lips. It was the sense of taste of Winterfell. The sense of taste of innocence. The sense of taste of dreams." — A Storm of Swords

27. "The style the world is made. The truth is all around you lot, plain to behold. The dark is dark and total of terrors, the mean solar day bright and beautiful and full of promise. I is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and dear. Biting and sweet. Male and female. Hurting and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and proficient." She took a step toward him. "Death and life. Everywhere, opposites. Everywhere, the state of war." — Melisandre, A Storm of Swords

28. "We look upward at the same stars and encounter such dissimilar things." — Jon Snow,A Storm of Swords

29. "Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her female parent and her father, fifty-fifty Sansa. Needle was Winterfell'south grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Quondam Nan'south stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face up, the warm earthy odor of the glass gardens, the audio of the north current of air rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "petty sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes." — Arya Stark, A Feast for Crows

xxx. "Who knows more than of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, gods made of gold with gemstone optics, gods carved of cedar woods, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air . . . I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers, and shed the blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I accept heard the prayers, in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden dear me, grant me a good for you son. Salvage me, succor me, make me wealthy . . . protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, protect me from the crabs inside my abdomen, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the sellswords at my door. Protect me from the Silence." He laughed. "Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest human being ever to raise sail! You lot serve one god, Damphair, but I have served x thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray." — Euron Greyjoy, A Feast For Crows

31."'A reader lives a chiliad lives before he dies,' said Jojen. 'The man who never reads lives only one.'" — Jojen Reed, A Dance with Dragons

32. "Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall non stop until my expiry. I shall take no married woman, concord no lands, begetter no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my mail service. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against common cold, the low-cal that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and accolade to the Night's Picket, for this night and all the nights to come." — Vow of the Night'due south Spotter, A Song of Ice and Fire

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Best Game of Thrones Quotes from the Goggle box Series

33. "I need you lot to become the human you were always meant to be. Not next year, non tomorrow, now." — Tywin Lannister, Season 1

34. Ned Stark: "Tell me something, Varys who practise you lot truly serve?" Varys: "The Realm, my Lord. Someone must." — Season 1

35. "It's a neat little play tricks you do. You motility your lips, and your male parent'due south vox comes out. — Robert Baratheon, Flavor 1

36. "You lot love your children. It'due south your 1 redeeming quality. That and your cheekbones." — Tyrion Lannister, Flavour 2

37. "Some people are fortunate plenty to be born into the right family. Others take to find their own manner." — Petyr Baelish, Season 2

38. "The storms come and become, the big fish eat the lilliputian fish and I keep on paddling." — Lord Varys, Season ii

39. "Chaos isn't a pit. Anarchy is a ladder. Many who attempt to climb it fail and never become to try once again. The autumn breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they pass up. They cling to the realm or the gods or honey. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is." — Petyr Baelish, Season three

xl. "Information technology's non easy existence drunk all the fourth dimension. Everyone would do it, if it were piece of cake." — Tyrion Lannister, Flavour 3

41. "If you call back this has a happy ending, y'all haven't been paying attention." — Ramsay Bolton, Season 3

42. "Evidence besides much kindness, people won't fear you. If they don't fear you, they don't follow you lot." — Stannis Baratheon, Season three

43. "You're mine every bit I'm yours. And if nosotros die, we dice. But first we'll live." — Ygritte, Season 3

44. "I retrieve mothers and fathers made up the gods considering they wanted their children to sleep through the night." — Davos Seaworth, Season iii

45. "A man with no motive is a homo no one suspects. Always go on your enemies confused. If they don't know who y'all are or what you want, they can't predict your next motility." — Petyr Baelish, Season 4

46. "Nothing isn't better or worse than annihilation. Nothing is just nothing." — Arya Stark, Season 4

47. "The earth is flood with horrible things, just they're all a tray of cakes next to death." — Olenna Tyrell, Season 4

48. "I was nothing at all. And when you're nix at all, there's no reason to be afraid." — Samwell Tarly, Season 4

49. "They're dragons, Khaleesi. They can never be tamed. Not even by their mother." — Jorah Mormont, Season iv

50. "It's a big and beautiful globe. Near of us live and die in the same corner where we were built-in and never get to see any of it. I don't want to be most of us." — Oberyn Martell, Season 4

51. "You're a hateful adult female. Why accept the gods made me love a hateful adult female?" — Jaime Lannister, Season 4

52. "It'southward always changing, who we're supposed to love and who nosotros're not. The only affair that stays the same is that we want who we want." — Ellaria Sand, Season 4

53. "All I ever wanted was to fight for a lord I believed in. Just the proficient lords are dead and the rest are monsters." — Brienne of Tarth, Season five

54. "The past is gone for adept. Y'all tin can sit here mourning it'southward departure, or gear up for the future." — Petyr Baelish, Flavour half dozen

55. "They've made us both stronger, all of them. They have no idea how stiff we are. No idea what we're going to do to them. We've always been together. We'll e'er be together. We're the only two people in the world." — Cersei Lannister, Season vi

56. "Everyone who makes a joke virtually a dwarf's height thinks he's the but person ever to brand a joke well-nigh a dwarf'southward height." — Tyrion Lannister, Season 6

57. "Get out one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe. When people ask you what happened hither, tell them the North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey." — Arya Stark, Season 7

58. "I don't plan on knitting by the fire while men fight for me. I might exist pocket-size, Lord Glover. And I might be a girl. But I am every flake equally much a Northerner as you lot. And I don't need your permission to defend the Northward." — Lyanna Mormont, Season 7

59. "He's a clever man, Your Hand. I've known a neat many clever men. I've outlived them all. You lot know why? I ignored them. The lords of Westeros are sheep. Are yous a sheep? No. Yous're a dragon. Be a dragon." — Lady Olenna to Daenerys Targaryen, Season vii

lx. "And then many men have tried to kill me, I don't recollect all their names. I have been sold like a broodmare. I've been chained and betrayed, raped and defiled. Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Religion. Non in whatsoever gods, not in myths and legends. In myself. In Daenerys Targaryen." — Daenerys Targaryen, Season 7

61. Sansa: What exercise dragons swallow? Daenerys: Whatever they want. — Flavour viii

62. "Love is the death of duty." — Jon Snow, Season 8

63. "Dear is more powerful than reason. We all know that." — Tyrion Lannister, Season 8

64. "Many underestimated you lot. Most of them are dead now." — Tyrion Lannister to Sansa Stark, Season 8

65. "Hound: You left me here to die. Arya: I robbed you first." — Season 8

66. "Tyrion: The terminal time we spoke was at Joffrey'south wedding. A miserable matter. Sansa: Information technology had its moments." — Season viii

67. "Eddison Tollett: Stay back! He'southward got blue eyes! Tormund Giantsbane: I've always had blueish optics!" — Flavor viii

68. "Daenerys Targaryen: We could stay a g years; no ane would observe usa. Jon Snow: We'd exist pretty old." — Season viii

69. "Nosotros don't take time for all this. The Night King has your dragon. He's one of them now. The Wall has fallen. The dead march south." — Bran Stark, Flavour 8

lxx. "Missandei: My people are peaceful. We cannot protect ourselves. Greyness Worm: My people are not peaceful. Nosotros will protect yous." — Season eight

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