# A Feast for Crows - Author: [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) - Quotes: 92 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows ## Quotes > Men come and go. They die, lie, or they leave you. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/men-come-and.md) > The most perilous part of the voyage was the last. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-most-perilous.md) > If you share your plans with no one, no one can betray you. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/if-you-share.md) > I'd sooner face nine men than ten. The tenth might have been the one who would have killed me. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/id-sooner-face.md) > When men must live like rats in the dark beneath the earth, they soon run out of pity, as they do of milk and honey. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/when-men-must.md) > There are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/there-are-those.md) > Gorghon of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is...and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/gorghon-of-old.md) > The hardest part of any battle is just before, waiting for the carnage to begin. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-hardest-part.md) > Alayne had told the lie so many times that she remembered it that way more oft than not. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/alayne-had-told.md) > A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-smile-should.md) > I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/i-am-tempted.md) > There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/there-have-always.md) > Fear makes even strong men do things they might never do otherwise. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/fear-makes-even.md) > In the darkness all of the gods were strangers. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/in-the-darkness.md) > We princes make our careful plans and the gods smash them all awry. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/we-princes-make.md) > Only the sound of the waves pounding remained, a roar no man could still. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/only-the-sound.md) > Why does a man with one pot of gold need another? Men are greedy. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/why-does-a-man.md) > Once a man had turned his tail and run from battle he ceased to be a man. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/once-a-man.md) > The more you give a king the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-more-you.md) > What a man can do and what he will do are two different things. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/what-a-man.md) > "The war of the Ninepenny Kings?” asked Hyle Hunt. > > “So they called it, though I never saw a king, nor earned a penny. It was a war though. That it was." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-war-of-the.md) > You will return to Lord Gyles and inform him that he does not have my leave to die. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/you-will-return.md) > Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark where I am, so why should I fear the darkness? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/death-should-hold.md) > Justice. I remember justice. It had a pleasant taste. Justice was what we were about when Beric led us, or so we told ourselves. We were king’s men, knights, and heroes... but some knights are dark and full of terrors, my lady. War makes monsters of us all. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/justice-i-remember.md) > I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/i-prefer-my-history.md) > When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/when-a-dog.md) > The path of faith was a crooked one. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-path-of-faith.md) > If sinners speak, why should the righteous listen? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/if-sinners-speak.md) > You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/youll-find-truth.md) > Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/nothing-tarnishes-a-hero.md) > I have never met a man I didn't provoke. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/i-have-never.md) > "Fuck" had been the first word of the Common Tongue that Xhondo had learned, and he was very fond of it. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/fuck-had-been.md) > On the gallows tree, all men are brothers. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/on-the-gallows.md) > A little mistrust is a good thing in a princess. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-little-mistrust.md) > He blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. Once he asked Maester Aemon that very question, when Gilly was down at the canal fetching water for them. “When you raised him up to be the lord commander,” the old man answered. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/he-blamed-jon.md) > Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/men-of-honor.md) > "You must be blind as well as maimed, Ser. Lift your eyes, and you will see the direwolf still flies above our walls." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/you-must-be-blind.md) > Salt a slug and shame a hero, and they shrink right up. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/salt-a-slug.md) > Corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death shall have improved them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/corpses-make-poor.md) > Sins can be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/sins-can-be-forgiven.md) > Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/arya-never-seemed.md) > For a mute to take a vow of silence would be akin to a legless man giving up the dance. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/for-a-mute.md) > The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-waves-may.md) > Almost a prayer...but was it the god he was invoking, the Father Above whose towering gilded likeness glimmered in the candlelight across the sept? Or was he praying to the corpse that lay before him? Does it matter? They never listened, either one. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/almost-a-prayer-but.md) > I wished to understand the nature of death, so I opened the bodies of the living. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/i-wished-to-understand.md) > Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/every-man-should.md) > A swift sword stroke is a better defense than any shield [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-swift-sword.md) > A woman may weep, but not a queen. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-woman-may.md) > Wizards may be well and good, but blood and steel win wars. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/wizards-may-be-well.md) > You know the best thing about heroes, Jaime? They all die young and leave more women for the rest of us. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/you-know-the.md) > Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/abed-unclad-we-are.md) > A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-lie-is-not.md) > Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/archmaester-rigney-once.md) > Even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred and first. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/even-a-man.md) > In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/in-the-game.md) > Name the cow what you will, so long as the milk flows. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/name-the-cow.md) > Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/knowledge-is-a-weapon.md) > When the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/when-the-cold.md) > Glory is good, but gold is better. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/glory-is-good.md) > The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-brave-man.md) > You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your house on a cold night. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/you-cannot-eat.md) > No fight is hopeless till it has been fought. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/no-fight-is-hopeless.md) > A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-man-does.md) > That was what men wanted, wasn't it? Soft helpless women that they needed to protect. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/that-was-what.md) > Some kisses are worth more than yellow gold [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/some-kisses-are.md) > What little peace and order the five kings left us will not long survive the three queens, I fear. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/what-little-peace.md) > On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/on-the-morning.md) > It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/it-is-being.md) > The best lies have some truth in 'em ... to give 'em flavor, as it were. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-best-lies.md) > A man takes much for granted when he has two hands. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-man-takes.md) > Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/only-a-craven.md) > If there are rocks to starboard and storms to port, a wise captain steers a third course. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/if-there-are.md) > In the black of night a man asks all the questions he dares not ask by daylight. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/in-the-black.md) > Valor is a poor substitute for numbers. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/valor-is-a-poor.md) > A swordsman should be as good as his sword. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-swordsman-should.md) > I can't command you to be brave, but I can command you to hide your fears. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/i-cant-command.md) > All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at allt he beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/all-you-westerosi.md) > All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/all-men-lie.md) > Who would cloak themselves in shame? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/who-would-cloak.md) > Every word was bought with pain, but that was the way of the world; a man must fight to live. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/every-word-was.md) > We are born to suffer, that our sufferings might make us strong. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/we-are-born.md) > Leave spells and prayers to priests and septons and bend your wits to learning truths a man can trust in. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/leave-spells-and.md) > The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-grey-sheep.md) > Elsewhere is a big place. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/elsewhere-is-a-big.md) > It was one thing to slay a lion; it was another to hack his paw off and leave him bewildered. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/it-was-one.md) > Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/before-he-had.md) > No promise was as solemn as one sworn to the dead. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/no-promise-was.md) > The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-truth-is-in-our.md) > Silence is a prince's friend. Words are like arrows ... once loosed, you cannot call them back. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/silence-is-a-princes.md) > "What's the use of a candle that casts no light?” > > “It is a lesson,” Armen said, the last lesson we must learn before we don our maester’s chains. The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serves, and it is sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous. Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble. The glass candle reminds us of that as well. Even after he has said his vow and donned his chain and gone forth to serve, a maester will think back on the darkness of his vigil and remember how nothing that he did could make the candle burn...for even with knowledge, some things are not possible." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/whats-the-use.md) > Girl or boy, we fight our battles ... but the gods let us choose our weapons [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/girl-or-boy.md) > When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/when-the-lion.md)