Top 44 Best William Goldman Quotes

#1. I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative."
"I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said.
"Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either.

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#2. Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

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#3. Any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.

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#4. We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
Westley

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#5. Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.

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#6. The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

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#7. Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

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#8. I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said.
"No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards.

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#9. The infant is ten and he stays,

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

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#11. Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

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#12. I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly.

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#13. Well, why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?

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#14. Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart?

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#15. When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead.

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#16. I write out of revenge.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Inigo looked at him. "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.

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#19. She fell fast and she fell hard, but what did that matter, since she would have gladly dropped a thousand feet onto a bed of nails if Westley had been waiting at the bottom. Down,

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#20. Myself am often surprised at life's little quirks

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#21. I have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

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#22. And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

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#23. Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything.

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#24. I'm not about to argue with a full professor, but if you ever have a really unbreakable case of insomnia, do yourself a favor and start reading Chapter Three of the uncut version.

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#25. It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

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#26. Will you draw your sword with your free hand?"
"I already have. Will you make a fist with yours?"
"It's clenched.

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#27. (This was long after hairdressers; in truth, ever since there have been women, there have been hairdressers, Adam being the first, though the King James scholars do their very best to muddy this point.)

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#28. 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.

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#29. When I was your age, television was called books.

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#30. Nobody knows anything ... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

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#31. 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.

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#32. The only way forward is to never look back.

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#33. Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

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#34. You always know what to do, you always know exactly what to do, you always do exactly what's right for you, and the rest of the world can go hang..

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#35. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She

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#36. Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?"
"I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

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#37. It's not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past.

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#38. There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.

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#39. There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine.

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#40. What with one thing and another, three years passed.

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#41. Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

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

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#43. 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.

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#44. Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

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