Davos Seaworth and Stannis Baratheon in “Unfinished Business”

Davos Seaworth

Westeros is not the world, Your Grace. We need to look east for ships and men. 10,000 skilled soldiers fight for the Golden Company.

Stannis Baratheon

[disgusted] The Golden Company?

Davos Seaworth

They've never broken a contract.

Stannis Baratheon

They're sellswords.

Davos Seaworth

We're willing to use blood magic to put you on the throne, but we're not willing to pay men to fight? Now the Red Woman's magic is real. Her visions and prophecies may be, too, but I've never heard of visions and prophecies winning a war. Soldiers win wars. Soldiers on the ground. It's dirty on the ground.

Stannis Baratheon

We don't have any gold.

Davos Seaworth

Not yet.

Stannis Baratheon

If I do not press my claim, my claim will be forgotten. I will not become a page in someone else's history book. I'm running out of time, Ser Davos. Which means you're running out of time.