William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Quotes

• “Now what happens?"asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended,"Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skil...”
• “I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was a...”
• “I am your Prince and you will marry me,"Humperdinck said.Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse.""I am you...”
• “The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I...”
• “Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after ta...”
• “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.”
• “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
• “Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
• “We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
• “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.”
• “Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?”
• “Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”
• “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
• “Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
• “When I was your age, television was called books.”
• “Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
• “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”