40 The Princess Bride Quotes For Motivation

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Get here the best quotes from the book ‘The Princess Bride’ which was written by William Goldman.

The Princess Bride Quotes

1. “Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.” ― William Goldman

2. “It was too unfair. You expected unfairness if you breathed, but this went beyond that.” ― William Goldman

3. “Have fun storming the castle!” ― William Goldman

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

5. “You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something!” ― William Goldman

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6. “Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited.” ― William Goldman

7. “The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair.” ― William Goldman

8. “The next morning, Inigo began the track-down. He had it all carefully prepared in his mind. He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die,” and then, oh then, the duel.” ― William Goldman

9. “People don’t remember me. Really. It’s not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn’t bother me all that much, except I guess that’s a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.” ― William Goldman

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

11. “I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.” ― William Goldman

12. “Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.” ― William Goldman

13. “Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.” ― William Goldman

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

15. “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” ― William Goldman

16. “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.)” ― William Goldman

17. “You’ll pick the wrong one, knowing you…He did pick the wrong one.” ― William Goldman

18. “The enemy is always in the mind.” ― William Goldman

19. “You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.” ― William Goldman

20. “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.” ― William Goldman

21. “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.” ― William Goldman

22. “Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” ― William Goldman

23. “I don’t have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle’s half over.” ― William Goldman

24. “Love is many things none of them logical.” ― William Goldman

25. “When I was your age, television was called books.” ― William Goldman

26. “Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?” ― William Goldman

27. “There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.” ― William Goldman

28. “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.” ― William Goldman

29. “I’ve been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it’s over I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.” ― William Goldman

30. “I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.” ― William Goldman

31. “The only way forward is to never look back.” ― William Goldman

32. “If there’s ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong.” ― William Goldman

33. “I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it is over I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.” ― William Goldman

34. “You are wonderful, Father.””I’m more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.” ― William Goldman

35. “There is no room in my body for anything but you.” ― William Goldman

36. “One thing you know when you’re ten is that no matter what, there’s gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.” ― William Goldman

37. “For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.” ― William Goldman

38. “I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.” ― William Goldman

39. “You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.” ― William Goldman

40. “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.” ― William Goldman