Quotes from book

The Princess Bride

“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.”

“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”

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

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

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. 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.”

“The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.”

“Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.”

“Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.”

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across…”

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

“I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.”

“Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.”

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

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

“You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.”

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

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.”

“The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?”

“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.”