Archmaester Quotes & Sayings

Of course," I said, voice barely a whisper. I swallowed. "I think ... I think you're beautiful."
His face didn't move. "I thought you didn't trust beautiful people."
"Not beautiful like that. I mean ... I don't ever want to stop looking at you. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith," writes Archmaester Haereg, "but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel. — George R R Martin

Vermax left a clutch of eggs somewhere in the depths of Winterfell's crypts, where the waters of the hot springs run close to the walls, while his rider treated with Cregan Stark at the start of the Dance of the Dragons. As Archmaester Gyldayn notes in his fragmentary history, there is no record that Vermax ever laid so much as a single egg, suggesting the dragon was — George R R Martin

Creativity is not a talent; it's a way of operating. — John Cleese

People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do! — Christine Teigen

To birth, to death, and that wondrous thing in between. And to auld lang syne. — Stephen Cox

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. — Benjamin Graham

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. — Josiah Gilbert Holland

Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted. — George R R Martin

If a human being closes her eyes hard enough and for long enough, she can remember pretty well everything that has made her happy. — Fredrik Backman

I had accepted that all the dark memories were mine. But I had never realized that the beautiful ones were mine too. I had a right to them. And the right to embrace them, regardless of what happened before and after. I had a right to my happiness, as well as my grief. — Linda Olsson

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. — George R R Martin