“- Some men think because they are afraid to do.- There is a difference between fear and caution.”

“Some men think because they're afraid to do.”

“Her father said there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear. "All men live with fear," he said.”

“Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”“They won’t,” Tyrion said. “They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.”

“You lie,” he said. “All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.”

“Even the bravest men fear death and maiming”

“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”