Calling yourself king doesn't make you one.

Oh, we aII do our duty when there's no cost to it.

Have you considered the best ruler might be someone who doesn't want to rule?

This is what ruling is, lying on a bed of weeds, ripping them out by the root, one by one, before they strangle you in your sleep.

— And correct me if l'm wrong, most pirates don't grow old.
— Only the clever ones.

Do you think the path from poverty to wealth is always pure and honorable?

My father used to tell me that boredom indicates a lack of inner resources.

— Love is more powerful than reason. We all know that. Look at my brother.
— "Love is the death of duty."
— You just came up with that?
— Maester Aemon said it a long time ago.
— Sometimes duty is the death of love.

— You already drank yourself across the Narrow Sea.
— In a box. Why stop now?
— Because we are talking about the future of our country.
— The future is shit.
— Just like the past.

Good prisoners breed good jailers, apparently.

If half an onion is black with rot, it's a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.

— Not everyone is such a gifted swordsman.
— It's not a gift. No one gave it to me. I'm good because I work at it — every day of my life since I could hold a stick.