Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Mhysa (2013)

Peter Dinklage: Tyrion Lannister

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• Joffrey Baratheon : Everyone is mine to torment! You'd do well to remember that, you little monster.

  Tyrion Lannister : Oh, "monster". Perhaps you should speak to me more softly then. Monsters are dangerous and, just now, kings are dying like flies.

• Tyrion Lannister : You just sent the most powerful man in Westeros to bed without his supper.

  Tywin Lannister : You're a fool if you believe he's the most powerful man in Westeros.

  Tyrion Lannister : A treasonous statement. Joffrey is king.

  Tywin Lannister : You really think a crown gives you power?

  Tyrion Lannister : No. I think armies give you power.

• Tywin Lannister : Shall I explain to you in one easy lesson how the world works?

  Tyrion Lannister : [sarcastically]  Use small words, I'm not as bright as you.

  Tywin Lannister : The house that puts family first will always defeat the house that puts the whims and wishes of its sons and daughters first. A good man does everything in his power to better his family's position, *regardless* of his own selfish desires.

  [Tyrion smirks] 

  Tywin Lannister : Does that amuse you?

  Tyrion Lannister : No, it's a very good lesson only it's easy for you to preach utter devotion to family when you're making all the decisions.

  Tywin Lannister : Easy for me, is it?

  Tyrion Lannister : When have you ever done something that wasn't in your interest but solely for the benefit of the family?

  Tywin Lannister : The day that you were born! I wanted to carry you into the sea and let the waves wash you away. Instead, I let you live. And I brought you as my son. Because you're a Lannister.

• Tyrion Lannister : My lady, people have been laughing at me far longer than they've been laughing at you. I'm the Half-Man, the Demon-Monkey, the Imp.

  Sansa Stark : You're a Lannister. I am the disgraced daughter of the traitor, Ned Stark.

  Tyrion Lannister : The disgraced daughter and the demon monkey. We're perfect for each other.

• 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.

• [Tywin and Tyrion discuss the Red Wedding] 

  Tyrion Lannister : Walder Frey is many things, but a brave man?

  Tywin Lannister : No. He never would have risked such an action if he didn't have certain assurances. Which he got from me. Do you disapprove?

  Tyrion Lannister : I'm all for cheating. This is war. But to slaughter them at a wedding...

  Tywin Lannister : [dryly]  Explain to me why it is more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

• Tyrion Lannister : Keep up!

  Podrick Payne : I don't think I can, my lord.

  Tyrion Lannister : It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it if it were easy.

• Tyrion Lannister : You have children. How happy would you say you are?

  Cersei Lannister : Not very. But if it weren't for my children, I would have thrown myself from the highest tower in the Red Keep. They're the reason I'm alive.

  Tyrion Lannister : Even Joffrey?

  Cersei Lannister : Even Joffrey.

• Sansa Stark : We could sheep shift Lord Desmond's bed. You cut a little hole in his mattress and you stuff sheep dung inside. Then you sew up the hole and make his bed again. His room will stink, but he won't know where it's coming from.

  Tyrion Lannister : Lady Sansa!

  Sansa Stark : My sister used to do that when she was angry with me. And she was always angry with me.

  [chuckles] 

  Tyrion Lannister : Why 'sheep shift?'

  Sansa Stark : That's the vulgar word for 'dung!'

  [Tyrion realizes what Sansa means] 

  Tyrion Lannister : My lady...

  Sansa Stark : Well, you asked me...

• Sansa Stark : So, how should we punish them?

  Tyrion Lannister : Who? Whom?

  Sansa Stark : Ser Eldrick Sarsfield and Lord Desmond Crakehall.

  Tyrion Lannister : Ah. I could speak to Lord Varys and learn their perversions. Anyone named Desmond Crakehall must be a pervert.

  Sansa Stark : I hear that you're a pervert.

  Tyrion Lannister : I am the Imp; I have certain standards to maintain.

• [heavy-heartedly, Tyrion intends to tell Sansa about the Red Wedding] 

  Tyrion Lannister : Sansa...

  [Sansa turns, her face is stained with tears, and Tyrion sees she already knows about what happened to her mother and brother. He walks out] 

• Tywin Lannister : Do you want to write a song for the dead Starks? Go ahead, write one. I'm in this world a little while longer to defend the Lannisters, to defend my blood.

  Tyrion Lannister : The Northerners will never forget.

  Tywin Lannister : Good. Let them remember what happens when they march on the south.

• [Tyrion reads Lord Frey's letter aloud] 

  Tyrion Lannister : "Roslin caught a fine fat trout. Her brothers gave her a pair of wolf pelts for her wedding. Signed Walder Frey." Is that bad poetry, or is it supposed to mean something?