Game of Thrones Season 1 Quotes

Episode 5

The Wolf and the Lion

Robert Baratheon: The whore is pregnant!

Ned Stark: You're speaking of murdering a child.

Robert Baratheon: I warned you this would happen. Back in the North, I warned you, but you didn't care to hear. Well, hear it now! I want 'em dead. Mother and child both. And that fool Viserys as well, is that plain enough for you? I want them both dead!

Ned Stark: You will dishonour yourself forever if you do this.

Robert Baratheon: Honor?! I've got Seven Kingdoms to rule! One King, Seven Kingdoms! Do you think honor keeps them in line?! Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace?! It's fear! Fear and blood!

Ned Stark: Then we're no better than the Mad King!

Robert Baratheon: Careful, Ned! Careful now!

Ned Stark: You want to assassinate a girl because the Spider heard a rumor?

Varys: No rumor, My Lord. The princess is with child.

Ned Stark: Based on whose information?

Varys: Ser Jorah Mormont. He is serving as adviser to the Targaryens.

Ned Stark: Mormont? You bring us the whispers of a traitor half a world away and call it fact?

Petyr Baelish: Jorah Mormont's a slaver, not a traitor. Small difference, I know, to an honorable man.

Ned Stark: He broke the law. Betrayed his family, fled our land. We commit murder on the word of this man?

Robert Baratheon: And if he's right?! If she has a son?! A Targaryen at the head of a Dothraki army! What then?!

Ned Stark: The Narrow Sea still lies between us. I'll fear the Dothraki the day they teach their horses to run on water.

Robert Baratheon: Do nothing?! That's your wise advice?! Do nothing till our enemies are on our shores?! You're my Council, counsel! Speak sense to this honoralbe fool.

Varys: I understand your misgivings, my lord. Truly, I do. It is a terrible thing we must consider, a vile thing. Yet we who presume to rule must sometimes do vile things for the good of the realm. Should the gods grant Daenerys a son, the realm will bleed.

Grand Maester Pycelle: I bear this girl no ill will, but should the Dothraki invade, how many innocents will die? How many towns will burn? Is it not wiser, kinder even, that she should die now, so that tens of thousands might live?

Renly Baratheon: We should have had them both killed years ago!

Petyr Baelish: When you find yourselves in bed with an ugly woman, best close your eyes and get it over with. Cut her throat and be done with it!

Ned Stark: I followed you into war. Twice. Without doubts, without second thoughts. But I will not follow you now. The Robert I grew up with didn't tremble at the shadow on an unborn child.

Robert Baratheon: She dies.

Ned Stark: I will have no part in it.

Robert Baratheon: You're the King's Hand, Lord Stark. You'll do as I command, or I'll find me a Hand who will!

Ned Stark: And good luck to him. I thought you were a better man.

Robert Baratheon: Out! Out, damn you! I'm done with you! Go, run back to Winterfell! I'll have your head on a spike! I'll put it there myself, you fool! You think you're too good for this, too proud and honorable? This is a war!