Quotes from William Goldman

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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

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.

I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.

He held up a book then. "I'm going to read it to you for relax." "Does it have any sports in it?" "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles." "Sounds okay," I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

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 love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

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 answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

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

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

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

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

It's always true, and in all the arts. When one guy's terrific, there will be a lot of other terrific guys around. And this last decade, the '90s, has been a period of very low talent.

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