Fire And Ice Quotes

Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints – the ground’s too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind…and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much Jon Snow.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

And any man who must say ‘I am king’ is no true king at all.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun’s children.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

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

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you