As a clever man once told me, "We make peace with our enemies, not our friends."
No ruler that ever lived had the support of all the people.
— You promise me a lordship and a castle and a highborn beauty for a wife.
— And you'll get all three. A Lannister always...
— Don't say it. Don't fucking say it.
Try to stay out of fights. But if you have to fight, win.
Let us sail on the tide of freedom instead of being drowned by it.
— For years I pretended to love the poor, the afflicted. I had pity for them, but I never loved them. They disgusted me.
— They are hard to love. The poor disgust us because they are us, shorn of our illusions. They show us what we'd look like without our fine clothes. How we'd smell without perfume.
I suppose it's hard for a fanatic to admit a mistake. Isn't that the whole point of being a fanatic? You're always right.