William Goldman idézet

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

“He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.”

“This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.”

“Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle.
Valerie: Think it'll work?
Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.”

“When I was your age, television was called books.”

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

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

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

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”

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

“Love is many things none of them logical.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.)”

“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'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.”

“As you wish…”

“I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with 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?”

“Have fun storming the castle!”

“Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”