Jaime Lannister Quotes

They're not good at anything. I know the ironborn. They're bitter, angry little people. All they know how to do is steal things they can't build or grow themselves.

They're going to try to take it away, all of it, all of them out there, our enemies. They're waiting in line to make sure he's really dead and as soon as they see the stones on his eyes they'll set to work on tearing us apart.

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!

Bronn: You ever been to Dorne?
Jaime Lannister: No.
Bronn: Well, I have. The Dornish are crazy. All they want to do is fight and fuck, fuck and fight.
Jaime Lannister: You should be happy to go back then.

Bronn: Once we've got the princess, than what?
Jaime Lannister: I like to improvise.
Bronn: That explains the golden hand.

Myrcella Baratheon: You looked different when I left. You had more hair.
Jaime Lannister: And more hands.

Jaime Lannister: We don't choose who we love. It just... well... it's beyond our control. I sound like an idiot.
Myrcella Baratheon: No, you don't.
Jaime Lannister: What I'm trying to say, what I'm trying and failing to say...
Myrcella Baratheon: I know what you're trying to say.
Jaime Lannister: No, I'm afraid you don't.
Myrcella Baratheon: I do.
Myrcella Baratheon: I know. About you and mother. I think a part of me always knew. And I'm glad. I'm glad that you're my father.

Fuck prophecy. Fuck fate. Fuck everyone who isn't us.

High Sparrow: You would spill blood in this holy place?
Jaime Lannister: The gods won't mind. They've spilled more blood than all of us combined.

Bronn: You promised me a lordship, and a castle, and a highborn beauty for a wife.
Jaime Lannister: And you'll get all three. "A Lannister always - "
Bronn: Don't say it, don't fucking say it!

Not everybody wants to die for someone else's home.

They don't fear the Freys, though. The fear the Lannisters. We gave you the Riverlands to hold the Riverlands. If we have to ride north and take them back for you every time you lose them, why do we need you?

They're not good at anything. I know the ironborn. They're bitter, angry little people. All they know how to do is steal things they can't build or grow themselves.

Tyrion Lannister: Oh, get on with it, you son of a whore!
Jaime Lannister: Is that any way to speak about our mother?

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?

Olenna Tyrell: That was Joffery's sword, wasn't it? Not that he ever used it. What did he call it?
Jaime Lannister: Widow's Wail.
Olenna Tyrell: He really was a cunt, wasn't he?

Dickon Tarly: Ser Jaime.
Jaime Lannister: Rickon.
Dickon Tarly: Dickon.

Jaime Lannister: That was only one of them. She has two more. If she decides to use them, to really use them...
Bronn: You're fucked.
Jaime Lannister: Don't you mean we're fucked?
Bronn: No, I do not. Dragons are where our partnership ends.

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.

In the name of the Warrior, I charge you to be brave. In the name of the Father, I charge you to be just. In the name of the mother, I charge to you to defend the innocent. Rise Ser Brienne of Tarth, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

You know the first thing I learned in the North? I hate the fucking North.

Tyrion Lannister: If it weren't for you, I never would have survived my childhood.
Jaime Lannister: You would have.
Tyrion Lannister: [shakes his head, on the verge of tears] You were the only one... who didn't treat me like a monster. You were all I had.

Look at me. Nothing else matters. Only us.

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

Brienne of Tarth: What are you doing, eat something.
Jaime Lannister: I'm dying.
Brienne of Tarth: You can't die. You need to live. To take revenge... You have a taste, one taste of the real world, where people have important things taken from them, and you whine, and cry, and quit. You sound like a bloody woman.

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.

Jaime Lannister: But even if the boy lives he would be a cripple, a grotesque. Give me a good, clean death anyday.
Tyrion Lannister: Speaking for the grotesques, I have to disagree. Death is so final, yet life is full of possibilities. I hope the boy does wake. I'd be very interested to hear what he has to say.
Jaime Lannister: My dear brother, there are times you make me wonder whose side you're on.
Tyrion Lannister: *My* dear brother, you wound me. You know how much I love my family.

The king shits, and the Hand wipes.

Jaime Lannister: Do you remember Thoros of Myr charging through the breach?
Jory Cassel: With his burning sword? I'll remember that 'til the day I die...

Jaime Lannister: Poor Ned Stark. Brave man, terrible judgement.
Tywin Lannister: Attacking him was stupid.
Tywin Lannister: Lannisters don't act like fools.
Tywin Lannister: You're gonna to say something clever? Go on, say something clever.
Jaime Lannister: Catelyn Stark took my brother.
Tywin Lannister: Why is he still alive?
Jaime Lannister: Tyrion?
Tywin Lannister: Ned Stark.
Jaime Lannister: One of our men interfered, speared him through the leg before I could finish him.
Tywin Lannister: Why is he still alive?
Jaime Lannister: It wouldn't have been clean.
Tywin Lannister: Clean? You spend too much time worrying what other people think of you.
Jaime Lannister: I could care less what anyone thinks of me.
Tywin Lannister: That's what you want people to think of you.
Jaime Lannister: It's the truth.
Tywin Lannister: And you hear them whispering "Kingslayer" behind your back, doesn't it bother you?
Jaime Lannister: Of course it bothers me.
Tywin Lannister: A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinion of a sheep.
Tywin Lannister: I suppose I should be grateful that your vanity got in the way of your recklessness. I'm giving you half of our forces. 30,000 men. And we'll bring that to Catelyn Stark's girlhood home, and remind her that Lannisters pay their debts.
Jaime Lannister: I didn't realize you place such a high value on my brother's life.
Tywin Lannister: He's a Lannister! Maybe the lowest of the Lannisters, but he's one of us. And everyday that he remains a prisoner, the less our name commands respect.
Jaime Lannister: So the lion does concern himself with the opinion...
Tywin Lannister: No, that's not an opinion, it's a fact! If another house can seize one of our own and hold him captive with impunity, we are no longer a house to be feared.
Tywin Lannister: Your mother's dead. Before long I'll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us rotting underground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor... but family. You understand?
Tywin Lannister: You're blessed with abilities that few men possess. You're blessed to belong to the most powerful family in the kingdoms. And you're still blessed with youth. And what have you done with these blessings, eh? You served as a glorified bodyguard for two kings... one a mad man, the other a drunk.
Tywin Lannister: The future of our family will be determined in these next few months. We could establish a dynasty that would last a thousand years... or we could collapse into nothing, as the Targaryens did.
Tywin Lannister: I need you to become a man you're always meant to be. Not next year, not tomorrow... now.

Jaime Lannister: We could end this war right now, boy, save thousands of lives. You fight for the Starks, I fight for the Lannisters. Swords or lances, teeth, nails - choose your weapons, and let's end this here and now.
Robb Stark: If we do it your way, Kingslayer, you'd win. We're not doing it your way.

Jaime Lannister: If your gods are real, if they're just, why is the world so full of injustice?
Catelyn Stark: Because of men like you.
Jaime Lannister: There are no men like me. Only me.

Jaime Lannister: I was sixteen once. I also had to replace someone's squire on short notice.
Alton Lannister: Which knight was it?
Jaime Lannister: Barristan Selmy. The fight against the kingswood outlaws, before your time.
Alton Lannister: What was he like?
Jaime Lannister: He was a painter. A painter who only used red.I couldn't imagine being able to fight like that. Not back then. And to help him do it, to be a part of something that perfect. I don't need to explain how that felt, not to you.
Alton Lannister: It's hard to put into words.
Jaime Lannister: It's like stepping into a dream you've been dreaming for as long as you can remember and finding out that the dream is more real than your life.

I wish someone would have told me, I wouldn't have had to steal that pig.

Jaime Lannister: It's a tough decision. Take the bridge and risk being seen, or cross the great water.
Brienne of Tarth: Silence, Kingslayer.
Jaime Lannister: Anyone can see us on the bridge, but cross by water and the current could take us, or I could escape down the river.
Brienne of Tarth: Good luck.
Jaime Lannister: It's wonderful to watch you wrestle with these dilemmas. Which will she choose?
Jaime Lannister: Gambler at heart. Wouldn't have guessed.
Brienne of Tarth: Be quick about it.

Jaime Lannister: When we make camp tonight, you'll be raped. More than once. None of these men have ever been with a noblewomen. You'd be wise not to resist.
Brienne of Tarth: Would I?
Jaime Lannister: They'll knock your teeth out.
Brienne of Tarth: You think I care about my teeth?
Jaime Lannister: No, I don't think you care about your teeth. If you fight them, they will kill you, do you understand? I'm the prisoner of value, not you.

Robert will choose a new Hand of the King, someone to do his job while he's off fucking boars and hunting whores... or is it the other way around?

Jaime Lannister: No milk of the poppy.
Qyburn: There will be pain.
Jaime Lannister: I'll scream.
Qyburn: A great deal of pain.
Jaime Lannister: I'll scream loudly.

Jaime Lannister: I owe you a debt.
Brienne of Tarth: When Catelyn Stark released you, we both made a promise to her. Now it's your promise. You gave your word. Keep it and consider the debt paid.
Jaime Lannister: I will return the Stark girls to their mother. I swear it.
Brienne of Tarth: Good-bye, Ser Jaime.

Jaime Lannister: You've wanted one of these in the family for a long time.
Tywin Lannister: And now we have two.
Jaime Lannister: Two?
Tywin Lannister: The original weapon was absurdly large. Plenty of steel for two swords.

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.

Loras Tyrell: Ser Jaime, I'm very sorry.
Jaime Lannister: Ser Loras, it's quite all right.
Jaime Lannister: Your sister looks very beautiful.
Loras Tyrell: As does yours.
Jaime Lannister: So... looking forward to your wedding?
Loras Tyrell: Yes, very much.
Jaime Lannister: Our fathers are both rather keen on the prospect.
Loras Tyrell: They certainly are.
Jaime Lannister: Perhaps they should get married.
Jaime Lannister: If you were to marry Cersei, she'd murder you in your sleep.
Jaime Lannister: If you somehow managed to put a child in her first, she'd murder him, too, long before he drew his first breath. Luckily for you, none of this will happen because you'll never marry her.
Loras Tyrell: And neither will you.

You're a hateful woman. Why have the gods made me love a hateful woman?

Jaime Lannister: To tell you the truth, this isn't so bad. Four walls. A pot to piss in. I was chained to a wooden post, covered in my own shit, for months.
Tyrion Lannister: Is that supposed to make me feel better?
Jaime Lannister: Maybe a bit.
Jaime Lannister: I'm sorry I didn't come sooner.
Tyrion Lannister: It's complicated, yes. So how is our sister?
Tyrion Lannister: How do you think? Her son died in her arms.
Tyrion Lannister: "Her" son?
Jaime Lannister: Don't.

Bronn: Your brother ever tell you how I came into his service?
Jaime Lannister: You stood for him in his trial by combat at the Eyrie.
Bronn: Aye. But only when Lady Arryn demanded the trial take place that day. You were his first choice. He named you for his champion because he knew you would ride, day and night, to come fight for him. You gonna fight for him now?

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.

Tyrion Lannister: Not going well, is it?
Jaime Lannister: You're going to be found guilty.
Tyrion Lannister: Oh! You think so?
Jaime Lannister: When you are, you need to enter a formal plea for mercy and asked to be sent to the Wall. Father's agreed to it. He'll spare your life and allow you to join the Night's Watch.
Tyrion Lannister: Ned Stark was promised the same thing, and we both know how that turned out.
Jaime Lannister: My father isn't Joffrey. He'll keep his word.
Tyrion Lannister: How do you know?
Jaime Lannister: Do you trust me?
Jaime Lannister: Keep your mouth shut, no more outbursts. This will all be over soon.

Jaime Lannister: I made a deal for you to keep your ungrateful head on your ungrateful neck a little while longer.
Tyrion Lannister: I'm sorry, what am I grateful for? The opportunity to live and die at the wall as punishment for a crime I did not commit?
Jaime Lannister: You threw your life away. You threw it away! It's not a joke. You understand that, don't you?
Tyrion Lannister: Of course it's a joke, just not a very funny one. I couldn't... I couldn't listen to her, standing there, telling her lies. I couldn't do it!
Jaime Lannister: You fell in love with a whore.
Tyrion Lannister: Yes, I fell in love with a whore. And I was stupid enough to think that she had fallen in love with me. That deal you made, it was everything Father wanted. You do see that? He gets you back as his heir. The future lord of the Rock. And he ships me off to Castle Black, out of sight at last. All so perfect. It felt good to take that from him. He knows I'm innocent and he's willing to sacrifice me anyway.
Jaime Lannister: He's willing to sacrifice any of us.
Tyrion Lannister: Not you! You're the golden son! You could kill a king, lose a hand, fuck your own sister, you'll always be the golden son.
Jaime Lannister: Careful. I'm the last friend you've got.
Tyrion Lannister: At least I got to tell them what they really are.
Jaime Lannister: Yes, brilliant speech. They'll be talking about it for days to come. I thought you were a realist. Didn't realize you would die for pride.