Top 30 Quotes About Stannis
#1. The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon
George R R Martin
#2. I am not without mercy, thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.
George R R Martin
#3. They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
George R R Martin
#4. Stannis had never learned to soften his speech, to dissemble or flatter; he said what he thought, and those that did not like it could be damned.
George R R Martin
#5. Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
George R R Martin
#7. The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Alfred North Whitehead
#8. Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone.
Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.
George R R Martin
#9. Stannis Baratheon with a grievance was like a mastiff with a bone; he gnawed it down to splinters.
George R R Martin
#10. Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
Donald Miller
#11. It was justice," Stannis said. "A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. You were a hero and a smuggler.
George R R Martin
#12. And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all.
George R R Martin
#13. If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got that ugly daughter of his. He goes to his marriage bed like a man marching to a battlefield, with a firm look in his eyes and a determination to do his duty.
George R R Martin
#14. His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh
George R R Martin
#15. The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.
George R R Martin
#16. Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never had, you must not do this, don't you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? Yes, loved you, better than Robert even, or Renly, for you were the one unloved, the one who needed me most.
George R R Martin
#17. Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still cared.
George R R Martin
#18. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone.
George R R Martin
#19. In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!
George R R Martin
#20. Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.
John Dewey
#21. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Aristotle.
#22. Stannis knows who Aemon is. If the red woman requires king's blood for her spells ...
George R R Martin
#23. Tyrion smiled. "Lord Stannis has sailed from Dragonstone." Cersei bolted to her feet. "And yet you sit there grinning like a harvest-day pumpkin?
George R R Martin
#24. Nowhere in the world do you find this evenness that people use as a norm. And I find it fascinating that they will hold up as a norm something that has never been seen on this planet, and regard as an anomaly something that is seen in country after country.
Thomas Sowell
#25. The letter ... What did your lords make of it, I wonder?"
Stannis snorted. "Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.
George R R Martin
#26. Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.
George R R Martin
#28. We're fortunate my brother Stannis is not with us. Remember that time he proposed to outlaw brothels?
George R R Martin
#30. Yields?" Lord Rowan laughed. "When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm's End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates.
George R R Martin
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