Handshakes Quotes

“Move.”
“Jesper!” his father said.
“Don’t worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It’s basically a handshake.”
“Is that true?” his father asked as the scholar grudgingly moved aside and they shoved the heavy desk in front of the door.
“Absolutely,” said Wylan.
“Certainly not,” said the scholar.
Jesper waved them on. “Depends on the neighborhood. Let’s go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.”
― Lawrence Booth

“He came over and held out his hand. I shook it. It was as clammy as a dead fish. Clammy hands and the people who own them make me sick.”
― Raymond Chandler

“Handshaking is about balance, really, between the limp fish shake and the bone-crushing vise. Perhaps someday I'll graduate to the two-handed shake that a spry nun once gave me at a soup kitchen, her hands cupped around my own with a gentle press, as though listening to me was all she wanted to do.”
― Nicole Sheets

“People must learn that shaking another person's hand is not a friendly thing to do. It is not a friendly thing to put other people at risk for infectious diseases."

She and several other people were shown demonstrating the elbow bump, and the auditorium got raucous again.

"We must also consider limiting the use of coins and paper money. For this, too, may cause diseases to spread. We must use technology and human ingenuity to develop ways so that, in their daily public transactions, people touch one another as little as possible. Ideally, we also want to touch as few buttons and handles and knobs as possible.”
― Sigrid Nunez, Salvation City

“Listen to me,' my father tells him, still squeezing Max's bony hand. 'A handshake isn't a sign of friendship. It's an assessment. You versus the other guy. Who would win in a fight? That's what I want you to think about. You need to show the other guy that if you absolutely had to, you could tear his throat out. Now, squeeze like you mean it, son.”
― Carter Wilson

“Tozl was an agent of the state without any real agency—a silk-clad servant smiling his way to the center of the vortex.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Some soldiers wear silk robes, have pearly white teeth, and engage in handshakes instead of bloodshed.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer