Princess Bride Quotes

“This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. “Welcome home. I’m glad you made it. There is coffee in the kitchen for you.”
My mouth gaped open.
He inhaled my scent, bent close, about to kiss me…
I just stood there like an idiot.
Curran smirked and whispered in my ear instead. “Psych.”
And just like that, he was out the door and gone.
Oh boy.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns

“What about a Princess Bride?"
"Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?”
― Ally Carter, Heist Society

“Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you.
Buttercup: But how can you be sure?
Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day?


Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me?
Buttercup: Well...you were dead.
Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
Buttercup: i will never doubt again.
Westley: There will never be a need.”
― William Goldman

“Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”

“You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked.

“What is that?” she asked.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“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, The Princess Bride

“Is this a kissing book?”
― William Goldman

“Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End.”
The Princess Bride (1987) – Grandpa (Peter Falk)”
― Peter Falk

“[Christy] joined some other girls from her floor who had gathered in the den to watch THe Princess Bride. The last time Christy had watched the movie was before she went to Switzerland. Katie had rented it and brought it over for their final girls' night. After watching it, Katie had declared she would never trust a guy who said "As you wish" to her every whim. She wanted a guy with gusto who would say, "Get it yourself," otherwise she knew she would sit around and get fat while he catered to her.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, As You Wish

“I wondered if Bill Goldman had ever experienced the same giant rats I had encountered while living in Manhattan - the ones the size of cats, that make you freeze in your tracks. The kind that are not afraid of human beings and carry themselves with that swagger and give you that look that seems to imply, "Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?”
― Cary Elwes

“La vie imite l'art, l'art imite la vie; parfois je suis incapable de les distinguer.”
― William Goldman

“Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You did 2d6+4 damage to my father. Prepare to make a saving throw.”
― Franklin Veaux

“I am Inigo Montoya and I do not accept defeat.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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

“You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine?
You're my friend, my only one.
Pathetic, that's what we are, Inigo said.
Athletic.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Oh, Westley, I didn’t mean that, I didn’t, I didn’t, not a single syllabub of it.”

Now Westley knew that she meant to say “not a single syllable of it,” because a syllabub was something you ate, with cream and wine mixed in together to form the base. But he also knew an apology when he heard one. So he held her very close, and shut his loving eyes, and only whispered, “I knew it was false, believe me, every single syllabub.”
― William Goldman

“What's our plan?
Well, reviewing our assets, we don't have artillery, nor enough grenades. And since we also lack a wheelbarrow and Holocaust cloak...
Very funny, Pete.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot

“You'll pick the wrong one, knowing you...He did pick the wrong one.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Oh, of course she'd thought about it; every girl does from time to time.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“I'm Inigo Montoya the Wizard; come for me!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“But I must never love again.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride