﻿People always demand the truth, but it rarely suits their taste.
What a person's smile is, so is the soul.
It’s a strange feeling: to chop someone up for the first time, and find that we are just sacks of meat, blood and bones.
There are so many vows. You only do what you swear. Protect the king, obey the king, obey your father, protect the innocent, protect the weak. What if your father despises the king? What if the king kills the innocent? Too many commitments. Whatever you do, you will break some oath.
Lannisters always pay their debts.
Better to have honest enemies than ambitious ones.
From a thin smile, the interlocutor can extract whatever he wants.
Only a fool can give empty threats.