Quote

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

George R. R. Martin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
Blogger
Contributing Editor
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Bayonne
New Jersey
George Raymond Richard Martin
GRRM
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Martin
Leaves
Unhappy
Fairs
Fair
Sides
Bargain
Bargains

More quotes by George R. R. Martin

Image
We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.
George R. R. Martin
Image
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
George R. R. Martin
Image
He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
George R. R. Martin
Image
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
George R. R. Martin
Image
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.
George R. R. Martin
Image
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.
George R. R. Martin
Image
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. It hurts, boy, he said softly. Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
George R. R. Martin
Image
All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.
George R. R. Martin
Image
When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it
George R. R. Martin
Image
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
George R. R. Martin
Image
We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.
George R. R. Martin
Image
We look up at the same stars and see such different things. - Jon Snow
George R. R. Martin