There's great honor in serving the Night's Watch. The Starks have manned the Wall for thousands of years, and you are a Stark. You may not have my name, but you have my blood.
Read more Eddard 'Ned' Stark QuotesFrom: Game of Thrones
Cersei Lannister: You want to be Hand of the King? You want to rule? This is what ruling is; lying on a bed of weeds, ripping them out by the root, one by one, before they strangle you in your sleep!Tyrion Lannister: I'm no king, but I think there's more to ruling than that.Cersei Lannister: I don't care what you think! You've never taken it seriously; you haven't, Jaime hasn't! It's all fallen on me.Tyrion Lannister: As has Jaime repeatedly, according to Stannis Baratheon.Cersei Lannister: You're funny. You've always been funny, but none of your jokes will match the first one, will they? Do you remember, back when you ripped my mother open on your way out of her and she bled to death?Tyrion Lannister: She was my mother too.Cersei Lannister: Mother gone, for the sake of you. There's no bigger joke in the world than that.
Cersei Lannister: You should be the Hand of the King.Jaime Lannister: That's an honor I can do without. Their days are too long, their lives are too short.
Sometimes duty is the death of love. You are the shield that guards the realm of men.