The best Quotes from House Of The Dragon

There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin, and no war so bloody as a war between dragons.

Rhaenys Targaryen - Season 2

Dragons

The war will be fought, many will die, and the victor will eventually ascend the Throne.

Alicent Hightower - Season 2

Anyone whose tongue dares to question the birth of Princess Rhaenyra's sons should have it removed.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 7

What is this brief mortal life if not the pursuit of legacy?

Corlys Velaryon - Season 1 Episode 7

You may know what is the right thing to be done, but love stays the hand. Love is a downfall. Best to make your way through life unencumbered.

Larys Strong - Season 1 Episode 6

You may do as you wish, husband, when I am cold in my grave.

Alicent Hightower - Season 1 Episode 6

Rhaenyra: "You do not desert your post when the storm lashes."
Laenor: "The wise sailor flees the storm as it gathers."

Laenor Velaryon - Season 1 Episode 6

Harwin Strong: "You're asleep in front of the Commander of the City Watch. Terrible lack of respect."
Rhaenyra: "A certain insolence runs in the family, I'm afraid."

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 6

Viserys: "I do hope the labor was easy."
Rhaenyra: "I think I called the midwife a cunt."

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 6

This is why men wage war. Because women would never be ready for the battle in time.

Jason Lannister - Season 1 Episode 5

Men & Women

Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung after you are dead?

Lyonel Strong - Season 1 Episode 5

We perform our duty to our fathers and to the realm. And when it's done each of us dines as we see fit.

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 5

When one is never invited to speak one learns instead to... observe.

Larys Strong - Season 1 Episode 5

Being Silent

What are children, but a weakness? A folly? A futility? Through them, you imagine you cheat the great darkness of its victory. You will persist forever, in some form or another. As if they will keep you from the dust.

Larys Strong - Season 1 Episode 6

Meat without wine is also a sin.

Larys Strong - Season 1 Episode 6

Wine Meat

The truth does not matter, Rhaenyra. Only perception.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 4

How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs.

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 4

Monarchy

Rhaenyra: "I endured it for as long as I could."
Alicent: "To have every young knight and lord in the Seven Kingdoms fawning over you? What misery."

Alicent Hightower - Season 1 Episode 4

Otto: "What do you make of Lord Jason's proposal?"
Viserys: "That man's pride has pride."

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 3

I did not decide to name Rhaenyra my heir on a whim. All the lord of the kingdom would do well to remember that.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 3

Viserys: "Jason Lannister is an excellent match."
Rhaenyra: "He's arrogant and self-serious."
Viserys: "I thought you might have that in common."

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 3

Lady Redwyne: "Though your father refuses to admit it, we've been dragged into it by your uncle and the Sea Snake."
Rhaenyra: "And how have you served the realm of late, Lady Redwyne, by eating cake?"

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 3

Your mother's absence is a wound that will never heal. Without her, the Red Keep has lost a warmth that I dare say it will never recover.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 2

Mysaria: "I ensured long ago that I would never be threatened by childbirth."
Daemon: "Good. Children can be such irritating creatures."

Daemon Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 2

To elude a storm, you can either sail into it, or around it. But you must never await its coming.

Corlys Velaryon - Season 1 Episode 2

Waiting

There are times when I would rather face the Black Dread himself than mine own daughter of 15.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 2

Daughters Teenagers

A truly great Targaryen King I am. Powerless over mine own daughter of seven-and-ten.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 3

Daughters Father & Daughter

You sit upon the highest seat in the realm, Your Grace. Proud men don't like having to look up.

Lyonel Strong - Season 1 Episode 2

I'll caution you, Lord Corlys, a seat at the King's table does not make you his equal.

Otto Hightower - Season 1 Episode 2

A loyal hand must tell his King a discomforting truth from time to time, Your Grace. If he doesn't he's failed as a servant.

Otto Hightower - Season 1 Episode 4

It was never my brother's strongest trait. Being King.

Daemon Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 2

I will speak of my brother as I wish. You will not.

Daemon Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 2

Rhaenyra: "My father seems content to sell me off to whichever lord has the biggest castle."
Daemon: "There are worse things to be sold for."

Daemon Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 4

I didn't come into your service wanting gold. Or power. Or station. I came to you to be liberated.

Mysaria - Season 1 Episode 2

These knights are as green as summer grass. None have known real war. Their lords sent them to the tourney field with fists full of steel and balls full of seed and we expect them to act with honor and grace.

Rhaenys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

You do understand nothing will cause the babe to grow a c-ck if it does not already possess one?

Aemma Arryn - Season 1 Episode 1

Rhaenyra: "I'd rather serve as a knight and ride to battle and glory."
Rhaenys: "We have royal wombs, you and I. The childbed is our battlefield."

Aemma Arryn - Season 1 Episode 1

Rhaenys: "A woman would not inherit the Iron Throne. Because that is the order of things."
Rhaenyra: "When I am queen, I will create a new order."

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1

If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

History

Men would sooner put the realm to the torch than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne.

Rhaenys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 2

The only thing that could tear down the House of the Dragon was itself.

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

Everyone say Targaryens are closer to gods than to men, but they say that because of our dragons. Without them, we're just like everyone else.

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

I, Viserys Targaryen, first of his name, King of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and protector of the Realm, do hereby name Rhaenyra Targaryen, Princess of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

Rhaenyra Targaryen

Viserys: "You will address me as 'Your Grace', or I will have my Kingsguard cut out your tongue. 'The Heir for a Day' - did you say it?"
Daemon: "We must all mourn in our own way, Your Grace."

Daemon Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

A dragon's saddle is one thing, but the Iron Throne is the most dangerous seat in the realm.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

Just as Daenys foresaw the end of Valyria, Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men. 'Tis to begin with a terrible winter gusting out of the distant north. Aegon saw absolute darkness riding on those winds. And whatever dwells within will destroy the world of the living. When this Great Winter comes, Rhaenyra, all of Westeros must stand against it. Aegon called his dream "The Song of Ice and Fire".

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

A Song of Ice and Fire

My dear wife, do not allow your temper to guide your judgment.

Viserys Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 7

As the first century of the Targaryen dynasty came to a close, the health of the Old King, Jaehaerys, was failing. In those days, House Targaryen stood at the height of its strength, with ten adult dragons under its yoke. No power in the world could stand against it.

Rhaenyra Targaryen - Season 1 Episode 1

If order and stability so concerns this council, then perhaps we shouldn't break 100 years of it by naming a girl heir.

Lyonel Strong - Season 1 Episode 1

Alicent: "Syrax is growing quickly. She'll soon be as large as Caraxes."
Rhaenyra: "That's almost large enough to saddle two."
Alicent: "I believe I'm quite content as a spectator, thank you."

Alicent Hightower - Season 1 Episode 1

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I am anticipating House of the Dragon pretty eagerly myself, for what it's worth. Okay, I am hardly objective. And I know a lot of what you will be seeing. I, um, wrote the book.

George R. R. Martin - December 2021

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