George R. R. Martin Quotes

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

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

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

A born king is a very rare being.

To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

I would not like a king who could obey.

I lack the strength needed to sustain the scepter. I abhorred it, but in the end I agreed to accept it in order to prevent evils to the country which was about to succumb anew, if not to the former slavery, at least to the horrors of anarchy.

All monarchies have a common characteristic...and that is stubbornness.

That monarch whose subjects are carried off by robbers from his kingdom, while they loudly call for help, and he and his servants are quietly looking on, is a dead and not a living king. The highest duty of a King is to protect his subjects, for the king who enjoys the rewards, just mentioned, is bound to discharge that duty.

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill spoken of.