William Goldman Quotes: 21

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

  William Goldman: Four Screenplays

• When I was your age, television was called books.

  The Princess Bride

• Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

  The Princess Bride

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

  The Princess Bride

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

  The Princess Bride

• Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

  The Princess Bride

• Who says life is fair, where is that written?

  The Princess Bride

• We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

  The Princess Bride

• True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

  The Princess Bride

• Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

  The Princess Bride

• Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

  The Princess Bride

• 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.

  The Princess Bride

• 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.)

  The Princess Bride

• 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.

  The Princess Bride

• 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?

  The Princess Bride

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

  The Princess Bride

• 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.)

  The Princess Bride

• I write out of revenge.

• 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.

  The Princess Bride

• In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

• Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

  The Princess Bride