Lord Paramount Tywin Lannister

Lord Tywin Lannister is the head of House Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, Lord Paramount of the Westerlands, and has served three kings as the Hand of the King. He is the father of Cersei, Jaime, and Tyrion Lannister, and grandfather of Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen Baratheon. He is one of the most influential and powerful nobles of the Seven Kingdoms around the time of the War of the Five Kings.

Quotes:

"Her father's eyes had always been unsettling; pale green, almost luminous, flecked with gold. His eyes could see inside you, could see how weak and worthless and ugly you were down deep. When he looked at you, you knew."

— Cersei Lannister on her father

"Before long I'll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor... but family."

―Tywin Lannister to his eldest son, Jaime

"A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep."

―Tywin Lannister

"I taught my son Jaime to read. The master came to me one day, told me he wasn't learning. He couldn't make sense of the letters. He reversed them in his head. The maester said he'd heard tell of this affliction, and that we simply must accept it. After that, I sat Jaime down for four hours every day until he learned. He hated me for it, for a time...for a long time, but he learned."

—Tywin Lannister reminisces about Jaime

"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."

―Tywin Lannister