Quotes About George

Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

What are we first? First, animals; and nextIntelligences at a leap; on whomPale lies the distant shadow of the tomb.

An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

What do you like to do?" She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. "Needlework." "Very restful, isn't it?" "Well," said Arya, "not the way I do it.

Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear

You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.

The wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.

The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.

I seldom fling children off the tops of towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

George R.R. Martin

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

Bronn himself, who'd only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, "They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it." Tyrion had no such delusion.

When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.