Quotes from William Goldman

Babe was candy.

I don't know how to describe it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you asked for your ashes to be spread gently on the Grand Canal at midnight with a full moon, everyone would know this about you - you loved and understood beauty.

But I don't think you would accept my help, since I'm only waiting up here so that I can kill you. That does put a damper on our relationship, the man in black said then.

Has it got any sports in it?" "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles." "Sounds

But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given.

You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does." "How

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Child; sweet child. I have a knife. I have my sword. I did not come across the world to lose you now. (Westley)

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all. Because without it, truth and reality go right out the window….

Sono il tuo Principe e non sono così male... Come puoi preferire la morte piuttosto che sposarmi?» «Perché» replicò Buttercup «matrimonio significa amore, e non è il mio passatempo preferito».

Who are those guys?

That was all he ever answered. "As you wish.

You're certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don't know into what.

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel.

Non ti amerò mai». «Non saprei che farmene, del tuo amore». «Va bene, allora sposiamoci».

They had been in the Fire Swamp for one hour, and it turned out to be the easiest one they had of the six it took to cross it. But they crossed it. Alive and together. Hand very much in hand.

Something's got you panicked and it's too late. You may be the biggest thing ever to hit this area, but in the long run, you're just two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but a couple of two-bit outlaws on the dodge... —you just want to hide out till it's old times again, but it's over. It's over, don't you get that? It's over and you're both gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where.

You keep that saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty.

Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

He had felt no pain, not once, none. He had closed his eyes and taken his brain away. That was the secret. If you could take your brain away from the present and sent it to where it could contemplate skin like wintry cream; well, let them enjoy themselves.

I only wish we could stay for his grief - it should be Homeric.