Varys Quotes

#1. I am a knight - " "So I've noted. Tell me - did Cersei have you knighted before or after she took you into her bed?" The flicker in Lancel's green eyes was all the admission Tyrion needed. So Varys told it true. Well, no one can ever claim that my sister does not love her family.

George R R Martin

#2. I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys)
'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

George R R Martin

#3. The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

George R R Martin

#4. Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How odd. I think quite the same of you.

George R R Martin

#5. The Imp," said Littlefinger as Lord Varys watched her face. "Tyrion Lannister.

George R R Martin

#6. The Red Keep shelters two sorts of people, Lord Eddard, Varys said. Those who are loyal to the realm, and those who are loyal only to themselves.

George R R Martin

#7. Varys smiled. "Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less." "So power is a mummer's trick?" "A shadow on the wall," Varys murmured,

George R R Martin

#8. Varys, the only thing I value less than my life just now is yours.

George R R Martin

#9. The man seems to have been quite friendless," Tyrion said carefully. "Sadly," said Varys, "oh, sadly. You might find some kin if you turned over enough stones back

George R R Martin

#10. I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.

Janeane Garofalo

#11. Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

Bradley Efron

#12. Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Salman Rushdie

#13. Oh, so poignant' said Varys. 'And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths

George R R Martin

#14. She trusted Littlefinger only a little, and Varys not at all.

George R R Martin

#15. Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

George R R Martin

#16. The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.

George R R Martin

#17. Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it.
I will take that as high praise.

George R R Martin

#18. Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

James Hong

#19. Varys appeared not long after Lord Jacelyn had left. "Men are such faithless creatures," he said by way of greeting. Tyrion sighed. "Who's the traitor today?" The eunuch handed him a scroll. "So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with your fathers?

George R R Martin

#20. Lawless men are everywhere in this dark time, oh, yes. Men with cold steel and colder hearts. - Varys

George R R Martin

#21. I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Bill Gurley

#22. To take a good rest in life time to time, you must know the ways to make yourself a remote island! An island no one can reach ...

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots.

Kate Alcott