George R. R. Martin Quotes

When you give someone your hand, it needs to be clean.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

I'm as clean as the days are long.

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

There can scarcely be a more difficult thing than to play a double game. It is dangerous, and it is at times, a nice point to draw the distinction between such a game and dishonor.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

There are little games that go on in politics.

Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

Play the black card expertly, and you can win awards, make millions - all the while claiming that the people who got you there somehow hate you.

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.