George R. R. Martin Quotes

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

You should have died when I killed you.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

The offender never pardons.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

The sorry path that remains for me to follow from an obscure prison to the gallows has been trodden by men with more merit than my own.

It is better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be condemned.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Was the blood which has just been shed so pure?

I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial, when I realized his guilt and that I had been partially duped.

Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to picket his funeral after all the things that he had done to so many other people. That vindictiveness is obviously completely understandable. It would make perfect sense.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.