William Goldman, The Princess Bride Quotes

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every priorexperience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.

I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I.

Who are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment.

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You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.

Enough about my beauty, " Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern'sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.