Quotes from William Goldman

Inigo loved him. Totally. Don't ask why. There really wasn't any one reason you could put your finger on. Oh, probably Domingo loved him back, but love is many things, none of them logical.

Then 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.

Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.

No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask?" "No reason," the Spaniard replied. "It's only that I just happened to look back and something's there.

You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning. Buttercup stood, made her bed, changed her clothes, comber her hair, smiled, and burst out again in a fit of weeping. Because there was a limit to just how much you could lie to yourself.

I'll never love you. I wouldn't want it if I had it. Then by all means let us marry.

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every prior experience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing... who can sense revelation in the wind?

The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage.

A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate Roberts. Otherwise it makes no sense.

Can you guess what I'm doing? Cutting my heart out. You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I—what could be more just than that?

Butch: Now after we.... wait a minute... Sundance: What? Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there? Sundance: Lefors ? No. Butch: Good. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Back, Witch— I'm not a witch, I'm your wife—

He always avoided arrest, and everyone except Yellin thought Falkbridge must be bribing somebody. Yellin knew he was bribing somebody, since every month, rain or shine, Falkbridge came to Yellin's house and gave him a sarchel full of money.

Estaba abrumado, sitiado, asediado. Derrotado. Por el hombre de negro.

Te amo. Te amo. Te abandoné en el Pantano de Fuego para poner a prueba tu amor. ¿Es tan grande como el mío por ti? ¿Acaso pueden dos amores así existir en un mismo planeta y al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay lugar para algo así, amado Westley...?

One final silly face. One blessed responding laugh. Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all....

any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

The pain is worse than I imagined!' Yeste cried. 'How can it hurt when the point of the weapon is still an inch away from your belly?' Domingo asked. 'I'm anticipating, don't bother me—let me die unpestered.

aaron would not come out aaron entered into agony.

The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I'll do my best to explain.

Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle.