Viserys I Targaryen Quotes

Viserys Targaryen: Let us no longer hold ill feelings in our hearts. The crown cannot stand strong if the House of the Dragon remains divided. But set aside your grievances. If not for the sake of the crown… then for the sake of this old man… who loves you all so dearly.

Viserys Targaryen: To trust a Martell is to be disappointed.

Viserys Targaryen: Will I be remembered as a good king, Lyonel?

Lyonel Strong: Your Grace?

Viserys Targaryen: What will they say of me when the histories are written? I have neither fought nor conquered, nor suffered any great defeat.

Lyonel Strong: Some might call that good fortune.

Viserys Targaryen: It hardly makes a good song, does it? To be sung at feasts in a hundred years… five hundred.

Lyonel Strong: You have carried King Jaehaerys’s legacy. And kept the realm strong. Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung after you are dead?

Viserys Targaryen (to Corlys): Upon their birth, Ser Laenor and Rhaenyra’s children shall take their father’s name, Velaryon… in keeping with our traditions. However, at such time when their firstborn ascends the Iron Throne, he or she will do so bearing the name Targaryen. Dragons will rule the Seven Kingdoms for the next hundred years, just as they did the last.

Viserys Targaryen: Before Aegon’s death, the last of the Valyrian pyromancers hid his song in the steel.

Rhaenyra Targaryen (reads from the blade): “From my blood come the Prince That Was Promised and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire”.

Viserys Targaryen: Whatever transpired, Rhaenyra is not innocent.

Alicent Hightower: Only because Daemon tried to corrupt her.

Viserys Targaryen: Daemon and Rhaenyra share the blood of the dragon. They are restless and chaotic.

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

Lyonel Strong: King Jaehaerys ruled over half a century of peace while his children drove him to the edge of madness… his daughters, in particular. It is tradition, Your Grace.

Viserys Targaryen: Ever since my name was read by the archmaesters at the Great Council, I have felt Corlys Velaryon’s envious gaze staring at me from across the Blackwater.

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

Viserys Targaryen (about Rhaenyra): There are times when I would rather face the Black Dread himself than mine own daughter of 15.

Viserys Targaryen (to Rhaenyra): 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. And if the world of men is to survive a Targaryen must be seated on the Iron Throne. A king or queen strong enough to unite the realm against the cold and the dark. Aegon called his dream “The Song of Ice and Fire.”

Viserys Targaryen (to Rhaenyra): A dragon’s saddle is one thing, but the Iron Throne is the most dangerous seat in the realm.