Cersei Lannister Quotes

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Cersei Lannister

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Cersei Lannister is played by Lena Headey in Game of Thrones.

Quotes

Tycho Nestoris: We don't make bets. We invest in endeavors we deem likely to be successful.
Cersei Lannister: A fancy way of saying "bet".

I drink because it feels good. I killed my husband because it felt good to be rid of him. I fuck my brother because it feels good to feel him inside me. I lie about fucking my brother because it feels good to keep our son safe from hateful hypocrites. I killed your High Sparrow and all his little sparrows, all his septons, all his septas, all his filthy soldiers, because it felt good to watch them burn.

#2

Cersei Lannister: Ser Gregor, welcome to the capital. Thank you for riding here so quickly.
Cersei Lannister: You seem to be in good form.
Gregor Clegane: Who am I fighting?
Cersei Lannister: Does it matter?

#3

Cersei Lannister: When you marched into the throne room to tell me we'd won the Battle of Blackwater...
Cersei Lannister: Do you remember?
Cersei Lannister: I was sitting on the Iron Throne with Tommen. I was about to give him essence of nightshade. That's how far I was willing to go when I thought someone awful had come to take my son away. Someone awful is coming to take him away.
Tywin Lannister: No.
Cersei Lannister: Joffrey is dead. Myrcella's been sold like livestock. And now you want to ship me off to Highgarden and steal my boy. My last boy. Margaery will dig her claws in, you will dig your claws in and you'll fight over him like beasts until you rip him apart. I will burn our house to the ground before I let that happen.
Tywin Lannister: And how will you do that?
Cersei Lannister: I'll tell everyone the truth.
Tywin Lannister: What truth would that be?
Cersei Lannister: You don't know, do you? You never believed it. How is that possible? What am I saying? Of course it's possible. How can someone so consumed by the idea of his family have any conception what his actual family was doing? We were right there in front of you, and you didn't see us. One look in the past 20 years, one real look at your own children and you would have known.
Tywin Lannister: Known what?
Cersei Lannister: Everything they say is true, about Jaime and me.
Tywin Lannister: No.
Cersei Lannister: Your legacy is a lie.
Tywin Lannister: I don't believe you.
Cersei Lannister: Yes, you do.

#4

Tyrion may be a monster, but at least he killed our father on purpose. You killed him by mistake with stupidity.

#5

Jaime Lannister: [Myrcella's necklace sent to them mounted on the neck of a serpent] It's a threat.
Cersei Lannister: Of course it's a threat! Our daughter's alone in Dorne surrounded by people who hate our family.
Cersei Lannister: "It's a threat."
Jaime Lannister: No note?
Cersei Lannister: They blame us for the death of Oberyn and his sister and every other tragedy that's befallen their cursed country.
Cersei Lannister: I will burn their cities to the ground if they touch her!
Jaime Lannister: Softer.
Cersei Lannister: What?
Jaime Lannister: Not so loud.
Cersei Lannister: Our daughter's in danger, and you're worried I'm speaking too loudly?
Jaime Lannister: The world can't know she's our daughter.
Cersei Lannister: Then don't call her your daughter. You've never been a father to her.
Jaime Lannister: If I were a father to any of my children, they'd be stoned in the street.
Cersei Lannister: And what has your caution brought? Our oldest child murdered at his own wedding. Our only daughter shipped off to Dorne. Our baby boy set to marry that smirking whore from Highgarden!

Cersei Lannister: Uncle Kevan, in light of your position as commander of the Lannister armies, it would please the king for you to serve as his Master of War. No man living better deserves the title.
Kevan Lannister: That is kind of you to say. I would like to hear it from the king himself.
Cersei Lannister: The king is very busy at this moment.
Kevan Lannister: He should be here, learning what it means to rule.
Cersei Lannister: He is learning. On this occasion, in his capacity as ruler, he has asked me to speak on his behalf.
Kevan Lannister: I returned to the capital to pay my respect to my brother, and to you, and to serve the king. I did not return to the capital to serve as your puppet, to watch you stack the Small Council with sycophants. Sending your own brother away so you may...
Cersei Lannister: My brother has left the capital to lead a sensitive diplomatic mission.
Kevan Lannister: What mission?
Cersei Lannister: That is not your concern as Master of War.
Kevan Lannister: I do not recognize your authority to dictate what is and what is not my concern. You are the queen mother. Nothing more.
Cersei Lannister: You would abandon your king in his time of need?
Kevan Lannister: If he wants to send for me, I will be waiting for him... at Casterly Rock.

#7

Cersei Lannister: I just wanted you to know if... if there's ever anything I could do for you...
Margaery Tyrell: You are very sweet.
Cersei Lannister: Tommen seems quite taken with his new queen.
Margaery Tyrell: I absolutely adore him. You raised a gallant young man. I'm forever grateful.
Cersei Lannister: Good... Good. I'm glad to hear you're happy.
Margaery Tyrell: Ecstatic. I really am. Exhausted, to be honest. But.. what can I expect?
Margaery Tyrell: He is half lion, half stag.

#8

Grand Maester Pycelle: The Small Council grows smaller and smaller.
Cersei Lannister: Not small enough.

#9

Cersei Lannister: Well, if it isn't the famous tart-tongued Queen of Thorns.
Olenna Tyrell: Well, if it isn't the famous tart Queen Cersei.

#10

Look at me! Look at my face! It's the last thing you'll see before you die.

#11

Lancel Lannister: Order your man to step aside or there will be violence.
Cersei Lannister: I choose violence.

#12

Cersei Lannister: I want to believe that. I want to believe that she's happy.
Oberyn Martell: You have my word. We don't hurt little girls in Dorne.
Cersei Lannister: Everywhere in the world, they hurt little girls.

#13

Jaime Lannister: Even Lannisters can't survive without allies. Where are our allies now? You saw what happened to Walder Frey and his family.
Cersei Lannister: I heard. How could we ever trust a man like that?
Jaime Lannister: We couldn't. He was a useless old coward, but the Freys supported us. Now they're all dead. Whoever killed them is no friend of ours. We need allies. Stronger, better allies. We can't win this war alone.
Cersei Lannister: You think I listened to father for forty years and learned nothing?

Cersei Lannister: If the Mad King's daughter takes the Iron Throne, she'll destroy the Realm as we know it. Some of you are bannermen of House Tyrell, but House Tyrell is in open rebellion against the crown. With their help, the Mad King's daughter has ferried an army of savages to our shores: mindless Unsullied soldiers who will destroy your castles and your holdfasts; Dothraki heathens, who will burn your villages to the ground, rape and enslave your women and butcher your children without a second thought. This is how Olenna Tyrell rewards centuries of service and loyalty.
Cersei Lannister: You will remember the Mad King. You remember the horrors he inflicted upon his people. His daughter is no different. In Essos, her brutality is already legendary. She crucified hundreds of noble men in Slaver's Bay, and when she grew bored of that, she fed them to her dragons.
Cersei Lannister: It is my solemn duty to protect the people and I will, but I need your help, my lords. We must stand together. All of us, if we hope to stop her.

#15

Tycho Nestoris: We don't make bets. We invest in endeavors we deem likely to be successful.
Cersei Lannister: A fancy way of saying "bet".

#16

Dead men, dragons, and dragon queens... whatever stands in our way, we will defeat it.

#17

Jaime Lannister: You plotted with Euron Greyjoy without telling me, the commander of your armies?
Cersei Lannister: And you conspired with Tyrion, the man who murdered our father, without telling me, your queen.
Jaime Lannister: I didn't conspire with him.
Cersei Lannister: You met with him in secret without my consent, you planned to promote my enemies' interests. THAT is the definition of conspiracy.
Jaime Lannister: I pledged to ride north. I intend to honor that pledge.
Cersei Lannister: And that will be treason.
Jaime Lannister: Treason?
Cersei Lannister: Disobeying your queen's command, fighting with her enemies, what would you call it?
Jaime Lannister: Doesn't matter what I'd call it.
Cersei Lannister: I told you no one walks away from me.
Jaime Lannister: Are you going to order him to kill me? I'm the only one you have left. Our children are gone, our father is gone; it's just me and you now.
Cersei Lannister: There's one more yet to come.
Jaime Lannister: Give the order, then.
Jaime Lannister: I don't believe you.

Jaime Lannister: This isn't about noble houses. This is about the living and the dead.
Cersei Lannister: And I intend to stay amongst the living.

If you want a whore, buy one. If you want a Queen - earn her.

#20

When the war is won, the lion will rule the land, the kraken will rule the sea, and our child will rule over all.

#21

Cersei Lannister: You're hurt.
Jaime Lannister: Doesn't matter.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.

#23

Cersei Lannister: Please.
Catelyn Stark: I would have dressed, your Grace.
Cersei Lannister: This is your home. I'm your guest.
Cersei Lannister: Handsome one, isn't he? I lost my first boy.
Cersei Lannister: A little black-haired beauty. He was a fighter too... tried to beat the fever that took him. Forgive me. It's the last thing you need to hear right now.
Catelyn Stark: I never knew.
Cersei Lannister: It was years ago. Robert was crazed, beat his hands bloody on the wall, all the things men do to show you how much they care. The boy looked just like him. Such a little thing... a bird without feathers. They came to take his body away and Robert held me. I screamed and I battled, but he held me.
Cersei Lannister: That little bundle. They took him away and I never saw him again. Never have visited the crypt, never.
Cersei Lannister: I pray to the mother every morning and night that she return your child to you.
Catelyn Stark: I am grateful.
Cersei Lannister: Perhaps this time she'll listen.

A good king knows when to save his strength and when to destroy his enemies.

#25

Cersei Lannister: You're just a soldier, aren't you? You take your orders and you carry on. I suppose it makes sense. Your older brother was trained to lead, and you were trained to follow.
Eddard Stark: I was also trained to kill my enemies, Your Grace.
Cersei Lannister: As was I.

Cersei Lannister: You're just a soldier, aren't you? You take your orders and you carry on. I suppose it makes sense. Your older brother was trained to lead, and you were trained to follow.
Eddard Stark: I was also trained to kill my enemies, Your Grace.
Cersei Lannister: As was I.

Cersei Lannister: I took you for a King!
Robert Baratheon: Hold your tongue!
Cersei Lannister: He attacked one of my brothers and abducted the other. I should wear the armor, and you the gown.
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this like a badge of honor.
Robert Baratheon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again!

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Prominent families often forget a simple truth, I've found.
Cersei Lannister: And what truth is that?
Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Knowledge is power.
Cersei Lannister: Seize him.
Cersei Lannister: Cut his throat.
Cersei Lannister: Stop. Wait. I've changed my mind. Let him go.
Cersei Lannister: Step back three paces. Turn around. Close your eyes.
Cersei Lannister: Power... is power.

#29

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.

#30

Tommen Baratheon: Is Joffrey going to kill Sansa's brother?
Cersei Lannister: He might. Would you like that?
Tommen Baratheon: No. I don't think so.

#31

Cersei Lannister: Killed? By whom?
Tyrion Lannister: Accounts differ. Most seem to implicate Catelyn Stark in some way.
Cersei Lannister: Really? Who'd have thought?
Tyrion Lannister: Some say it was one of his own Kingsguard, while still others say it was Stannis himself who did it after negotiations went sour.
Cersei Lannister: Whomever did it, I say well done.
Tyrion Lannister: That's not what Varys says. He says Renly's army is flocking to support Stannis, which would give Stannis superiority over us on both land and sea.
Cersei Lannister: Littlefinger says we can outspend him three-to-one.
Tyrion Lannister: And I say Father raised you to have too much respect for money.

#32

One day I pray you love someone. I pray you love her so much, when you close your eyes, you see her face. I want that for you. I want you to know what it's like to love someone, truly love someone, before I take her from you.

#33

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.

Cersei Lannister: A bit of a comedown from chamber of the Hand. But then I don't suppose you need much room.
Tyrion Lannister: Grand Maester Pycelle made the same joke. You must be proud to be as funny as a man whose balls brush his knees.

Cersei Lannister: You're a clever man. But you're not half as clever as you think you are.
Tyrion Lannister: Still makes me more clever than you.

Cersei Lannister: Margaery has her claws on Joffrey. She knows how to manipulate him.
Tywin Lannister: Good. I wish you knew how to manipulate him. I don't distrust you because you're a woman. I distrust you because you're not as smart as you think you are. You've allowed that boy to ride roughshod over you and everyone else in this city.
Cersei Lannister: Perhaps... you should try stopping him from doing what he likes.
Tywin Lannister: I will. image

Cersei Lannister: Margaery has her claws on Joffrey. She knows how to manipulate him.
Tywin Lannister: Good. I wish you knew how to manipulate him. I don't distrust you because you're a woman. I distrust you because you're not as smart as you think you are. You've allowed that boy to ride roughshod over you and everyone else in this city.
Cersei Lannister: Perhaps... you should try stopping him from doing what he likes.
Tywin Lannister: I will.

Tywin Lannister: There, you see? You will wed her, bed her, and put a child in her. Surely you're capable of that.
Tyrion Lannister: And if I refuse?
Tywin Lannister: You wanted to be rewarded for your valor in battle. Sansa Stark is a finer reward than you could ever dare hope for. And it is past time you were wed.
Tyrion Lannister: I was wed. Or don't you remember you?
Tywin Lannister: Only too well.
Cersei Lannister: You should be thanking the gods for this. This is more than you deserve.
Tywin Lannister: Tyrion will do as he's bid.
Tywin Lannister: As will you.
Cersei Lannister: What do you mean?
Tywin Lannister: You'll marry Ser Loras.
Cersei Lannister: I will not.
Tywin Lannister: The boy is heir to Highgarden. Tyrion will secure the North. You will secure the Reach.
Cersei Lannister: No, I won't do it.
Tywin Lannister: Yes, you will. You're still fertile. You need to marry and breed.
Cersei Lannister: I am Queen Regent, not some broodmare. You're my daughter! You will do as I command and you will marry Loras Tyrell and put an end to the disgusting rumors about you once and for all.
Cersei Lannister: Father, don't make me do it again, please.
Tywin Lannister: Not another word!
Tywin Lannister: My children. You've disgraced the Lannister name for far too long.

Tyrion Lannister: I don't suppose there is anything we can do about this?
Cersei Lannister: We can have them both killed.
Tyrion Lannister: It's hard to say which of the four of us is getting the worst of the arrangement. Probably Sansa. Though Loras will certainly come to know a deep and singular misery.
Cersei Lannister: Father doesn't discriminate.

If you ever call me sister again, I'll have you strangled in your sleep.

#40

Tyrion Lannister: How long does it go on?
Cersei Lannister: Until we've dealt with all our enemies.
Tyrion Lannister: Every time we deal with an enemy, we create two more.
Cersei Lannister: Then I suppose it will go on for quite a long time.

Qyburn: A work of art. The craftsmanship is excellent.
Jaime Lannister: You like it so much, you're welcome to chop off your own hand and take it.
Cersei Lannister: You're such an ingrate. I spent days with the goldsmith getting the details just right.
Jaime Lannister: Days?
Cersei Lannister: Better part of an afternoon.

He did this. He poisoned my son, your king. Take him. Take him! TAKE HIM! TAKE HIM!

#43

Cersei Lannister: Why did Catelyn Stark set you free?
Jaime Lannister: What?
Cersei Lannister: I've been wondering for months. Ever since that great cow brought you back to the capital. Why did she set you free?
Jaime Lannister: You know why. She'd hoped I'd send her daughters back to her.
Cersei Lannister: She hoped or did you promise?
Jaime Lannister: I swore by all the gods that if her daughters were alive, I'd return them to her.
Cersei Lannister: So you made a sacred vow to the enemy.
Jaime Lannister: I wanted to get back to you. Should I have told her to fuck off?
Cersei Lannister: You didn't mean it, then? You have no loyalty to Catelyn Stark?
Jaime Lannister: Catelyn Stark's dead.

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