Layth Salah > Layth's Quotes

“Still, night falls for all of us in the end, and too soon for some.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“All he needed to do was nothing. a few moments more, and he would be with his sons now, resting in the cool green mud on the bottom of the bay, with fish nibbling at his face.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“once the cow’s been milked there’s no squirting the cream back up her udder.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“In a swordfight, a man's surest defense is the swift stroke that slays his foe, not cringing behind a shield.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“A good threat is often more telling than a blow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You can trick out a milk cow in crupper, crinet, and chamfron, and bard her all in silk, but that dosen't mean that you can ride her into battle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“It’s dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o’ it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“In battle, discipline beats numbers nine times of every ten.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“But what does it matter, for all men must die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“However strong or fast or skilled a knight may be, there are others who can match him. A man will win one tourney, and fall quickly in the next. A slick spot in grass may mean defeat, or what you ate for supper the night before. A change in wind may bring the gift of victory, Or a lady's favor knotted round an arm.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know you did for love. For Arya and Sansa, and out of grief for Bran and Rickon. Love’s not always wise, I’ve learned. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts... wherever they take us. Don’t we, Mother?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“A man cannot sup from the beggar’s bowl all his life and stay a man.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good.” She took a step toward him. “Death and life. Everywhere, opposites. Everywhere, the war.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“...and some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.”
― George R.R. Martin

“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Gold in my purse is better than gold in my future”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“A lady's armor is courtesy”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“a wise man could earn more from silence than from song.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords