Tywin Lannister Quotes

Cersei Lannister: You don't know, do you? You never believed it. How is that possible? What am I saying? Of course it's possible. How can someone so consumed by the idea of his family have any conception what his actual family was doing? We were right there in front of you and you didn't see us. One look in the past 20 years, one real look at your own children and you would have known.

Tywin Lannister: Known what?

Cersei Lannister: Everything they say is true. About Jaime and me.

Tywin Lannister: No.

Cersei Lannister: Your legacy is a lie.

Tywin Lannister: No, no, no, no. I don't believe you.

Cersei Lannister: Yes, you do.

Cersei Lannister: There must be someone at the Iron Bank you can speak to, come to some arrangement.

Tywin Lannister: The Iron Bank is the Iron Bank. There is no someone.

Cersei Lannister: Someone does work there. It is comprised of people.

Tywin Lannister: And a temple is comprised of stones. One stone crumbles and another takes its place. And the temple holds its form for 1,000 years or more. That's what the Iron Bank is... a temple. We all live in its shadow and almost none of us know it. You can't run from them. You can't cheat them. You can't sway them with excuses. If you owe them money and you don't want to crumble yourself, you pay it back.

Cersei Lannister (to Tyrion about him marrying Sansa): You should be thanking the gods for this. This is more than you deserve.

Tywin Lannister: Tyrion will do as he's bid. As will you.

Cersei Lannister: What do you mean?

Tywin Lannister: You'll marry Ser Loras.

Cersei Lannister: I will not.

Tywin Lannister: The boy is heir to Highgarden. Tyrion will secure the North, you will secure the Reach.