William Goldman Quotes

You can never trust what you read.

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

There is no room in my body for anything but you.

Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

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.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

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.)

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!

You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.

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

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.

I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

My Westley will come for me.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

You have a dizzying intellect.

Anybody that says different is selling something.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.

Get used to disappointment.

The infant is ten and he stays.

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

I'm not witch. I'm your wife.

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

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

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