Game of Thrones Season 1 Quotes

Episode 7

You Win or You Die

Jaime Lannister: "You are summoned to answer for the crimes of your bannerman, Gregor Clegane 'the Mountain'... er, arrive within the fortnight or be branded an enemy of the Crown." Poor Ned Stark. Brave man, terrible judgement.

Tywin Lannister: Attacking him was stupid. Lannisters don't act like fools. Are you gonna say something clever? Go on! Say something clever.

Jaime Lannister: Catelyn Stark took my brother.

Tywin Lannister: Why is he still alive?

Jaime Lannister: Tyrion?

Tywin Lannister: Ned Stark.

Jaime Lannister: One of our men interfered, spearred him through the leg before I could finish him.

Tywin Lannister: Why is he still alive?

Jaime Lannister: It wouldn't have been clean.

Tywin Lannister: Clean? You spend too much time worrying about what other people think of you.

Jaime Lannister: I could care less what anyone thinks of me.

Tywin Lannister: No, that's what you want people to think of you.

Jaime Lannister: It's the truth.

Tywin Lannister: When you hear them whispering 'Kingslayer' behind your back, doesn't it bother you?

Jaime Lannister: Of course it bothers me.

Tywin Lannister: The lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep. I suppose I should be grateful your vanity got in the way of your recklessness. I'm giving you half of our forces. Thirty-thousand men. You will bring them to Catelyn Stark's girlhood home and remind her that Lannisters pay their debts!

Jaime Lannister: I didn't know you put such a high value on my brother,s life

Tywin Lannister: He's a Lannister. He might be the lowest of the Lannisters, but he is one of us. And every day that he remains a prisoner, the less our name commands respect.

Jaime Lannister: So, the lion does concern himself with the opinions of the-

Tywin Lannister: No it's not an opinion, it's a fact! If anouther house can seize one of our own, and hold him captive with impunity, it means we're no longer a house to be feared! Your mother's dead, before long I'll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children. All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your honor, not your personal glory, family. Do you understand? You're blessed with abilities that few men possess. You're blessed to belong to the most powerful family in the Kingdoms, and you're still blessed with youth. And what have you done with there blessings, hmm? You've served as a glorified bodyguard for two kings, one a madman, the other a drunk. The future of our family will be determined in these nixt few months. We could establish a dynasty that will last a thousand years... or we could collapse into nothing, as the Targaryens did. I need you to become the man you were always meant to be. Not next year, not tomorrow, now.

Ned Stark: I know the truth Jon Arryn died for.

Cersei Lannister: Do you, Lord Stark? Is that why you call me here, to pose me riddles?

Ned Stark: (about Robert hitting her) Has he done this before?

Cersei Lannister: Jaime would have killed him. My brother is worth a thousand of your friend.

Ned Stark: Your brother? Or your lover?

Cersei Lannister: The Targaryen wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep their bloodlines pure. Jaime and I are more than brother and sister, we shared a womb, came into this world together, we belong together.

Ned Stark: My son saw you with him.

Cersei Lannister: Do you love your children?

Ned Stark: With all my heart.

Cersei Lannister: No More than I love mine.

Ned Stark: And they're all Jaime's.

Cersei Lannister: Thank the gods. In the rare event Robert leaves his whores long enough to stumble drunken into my bed, I finish him off in other ways. In the morning, he doesn't even remember.

Ned Stark: You've always hated him!

Cersei Lannister: Hated him? I worshipped him! Every girl in the Seven Kingdoms dreamed of him, but he was mine by oath. And when I finally saw him on our wedding day in the Sept of Baelor, lean and fierce and black-bearded, it was the happiest moment of my life. And that night, he crawled on top of me, stinking of wine, and did what he did, what little he could do, and whispered in my ear, "Lyanna". Your sister was a corpse, I was a living girl, and he loved her more than me!

Ned Stark: When the king returns from his hunt, I will tell him the truth. You must be gone by then, you and your children, I won't have their blood on my hands. Go as far away as you can with as many men as you can, because wherever you go, Robert's wrath will follow you.

Cersei Lannister: And what of my wrath, Lord Stark? You should have taken the realm for yourself. Jaime told me about the day King's Landing fell. He was sitting on the Iron Throne, and you made him give it up. All you needed to do was climb the steps yourself... such a sad mistake.

Ned Stark: I've made many mistakes in my life, but that wasn't one of them.

Cersei Lannister: Oh, but it was. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

Renly Baratheon: Lord Stark, a moment... Alone, if you will? ... He named you Protector of the Realm?

Ned Stark: He did.

Renly Baratheon: She won't care. Give me an hour, and I can put a hundred swords at your command.

Ned Stark: And what should I do with a hundred swords?

Renly Baratheon: Strike! Tonight, while the castle sleeps! We must get Joffrey away from his mother and into our custody, Protector of the Realm or no, he who holds the king holds the kingdom. Every moment you delay gives Cersei another moment to prepare, by the time Robert dies, it will be too late for the both of us!

Ned Stark: And what about Stannis?

Renly Baratheon: Saving the Seven Kingdoms from Cersei and delivering them to Stannis?! You have odd notions about protecting the realm!

Ned Stark: Stannis is your older brother-

Renly Baratheon: This isn't about the bloody line of succession! That didn't matter when you rebelled against the Mad King, it shouldn't matter now! What's best for the Kingdoms? What's best for the people we rule? We all know what Stannis is, he inspires no love or loyalty. He's not a king... I am.

Ned Stark: Stannis is a commander. He's led me into war twice, he destroyed the Greyjoy fleet.

Renly Baratheon: Yes, he's a good soldier, everyone knows that, so was Robert! Tell me something, do you still believe good soldiers make good kings?

Ned Stark: I will not dishonour Robert's last hours by shedding blood in his halls and dragging frightened children from their beds.

Petyr Baelish: I did warn you not to trust me.