Name: Game of Thrones
Genre: action television series, adventure television series, fantasy television series, drama television series
Cast: Sean Bean, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey

A noblewoman in a fur cloak and a small boy stand in a snowy castle courtyard at dusk as a man in black waits beyond. — Original artwork

He won't be a boy forever. And winter is coming.

Eddard Stark

A lord in a fur cloak stands by a stone block with a greatsword in a snowy castle courtyard, wolf banners hanging from the walls. — Original artwork

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Eddard Stark

A lord in a dark fur cloak stands before a snowbound grey castle with direwolves at his side and a tattered wolf banner in the wind. — Original artwork

Winter is coming.

Eddard Stark

A blond knight in a white cloak stands in a great throne-room council chamber among seated lords. — Original artwork

Robert will choose a new hand of the kingdom to do his job while he’s out fucking boars or hunting whores… or is it the other way around?

Jaime Lannister

A wealthy magister lounges by a pool in a sunlit Pentos courtyard as a wedding procession passes. — Original artwork

A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.

Magister Illyrio Mopatis

A magister in rich robes holds court in a lamplit courtyard full of guests at dusk. — Original artwork

The Dothraki are not known for their punctuality.

Magister Illyrio Mopatis

A small man in a dark coat stands in a candlelit chamber hung with tapestries among lounging guests. — Original artwork

I’m a monster, as well as a dwarf. You should charge me double.

Tyrion

A hooded man and a girl in travel-worn clothes face each other on a dusk road outside a ruined castle, a twisted tree and a distant fortress behind them, in woodcut style. — Original artwork

Valar morghulis.

Jaqen H'ghar

A short nobleman in a wine-red velvet doublet and gold chain sits in a candlelit chamber beside a table of spilled gold coins, a golden lion banner behind him. — Original artwork

A Lannister always pays his debts.

Tyrion

A blonde queen in a crimson-and-gold gown faces a bearded lord in a grey fur cloak beneath a red-leaved tree in a sunlit castle garden. — Original artwork

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

Cersei Lannister

A red priestess with raised arms stands before a roaring bonfire of carved statues on a night beach below a black castle, ranks of soldiers watching, in black and red. — Original artwork

The night is dark and full of terrors.

Melisandre

A red-haired wildling woman with a bow sits close to a dark-haired man in a black fur cloak at an icy cave mouth, a frozen camp and a great ice wall beyond. — Original artwork

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

Ygritte

In an icy cave beneath a red-leaved tree, a woman with a spear shouts as a huge man braces a door against a flood of pale corpses breaking through. — Original artwork

Hold the door!

Meera Reed

A silver-haired queen in white raises her hand as a great dragon breathes fire on a slaver in a dusty square lined with ranks of armoured soldiers. — Original artwork

Dracarys.

Daenerys Targaryen

A bearded schemer in a dark doublet turns to a bald man in long robes in a candlelit stone hall, a moonlit city beyond the arches, in black and white. — Original artwork

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Petyr Baelish

A swordmaster with a wooden practice sword faces a small girl in a fighting stance on a sun-baked stone practice yard above a red-roofed city. — Original artwork

What do we say to the god of death? Not today.

Syrio Forel

Armoured knights stand before a roaring hearth beneath a red three-headed dragon banner, a dragon flying over a castle at sunset beyond the archway. — Original artwork

Fire and blood.

The words of House Targaryen, Game of Thrones

A short man lounges with a goblet on the steps of a throne in a vast pyramid hall overlooking a sunlit city, a bald robed man beside him. — Original artwork

That's what I do: I drink and I know things.

Tyrion

Painterly fantasy illustration of a thin girl in grey robes standing before a dark still pool in a vast pale stone temple of arches and statues, a cloaked figure waiting on the far steps. — Original artwork

A girl has no name.

Arya Stark

Creator: D. B. Weiss, David Benioff
Cast: Sean Bean, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Iain Glen
Network: HBO
Year: 2011
Genres: action television series, adventure television series, fantasy television series
Country: United States

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Game of Thrones (2011-2019) minted proverbs at industrial scale: 'Winter is coming' is House Stark's actual motto, engineered by George R. R. Martin to be both weather report and prophecy. 'A Lannister always pays his debts' is repeated so often in-world that characters bet their lives on it. Tyrion's courtroom speeches and Ygritte's 'You know nothing, Jon Snow' outlived even the series' contested final season.