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This book showcases the best and most humorous quotes from George R.R. Martin's favourite character Tyrion Lannister, the worldly, jaded, funny, highly intelligent, cynical, womanizing star of the books. A perfect stocking-filler for every fan of the books, and of HBO's award-winning television series.
‘I only need half my wits to be a match for you’
Short and to the point. That’s Tyrion. Here are the finest, funniest, rudest and wisest sayings of the miniature Machiavelli; the dwarf with a brain the size of a planet and a heart of (tarnished) gold …
‘Sleep is good. Books are better’
Drawn from George R.R. Martin’s bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire books, the basis for the HBO original series Game of Thrones. Illustrations are by artist and caricaturist Jonty Clark.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
A Game of Thrones
‘If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will lose an arrow at him.’
A Clash of Kings
‘Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.’
‘Sleep is good. Books are better.’
‘When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.’
‘My nephew is not fit to sit a privy, let alone the Iron Throne.’
A Storm of Swords
‘My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feed me shit.’
A Dance with Dragons
‘I only need half my wits to be a match for you.’
‘The Gods must have been drunk when they got to me’
‘The only thing more pitiful than a dwarf without a nose is a dwarf without a nose who has no gold.’