Westley Quotes

#1. 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.

William Goldman

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

William Goldman

#3. That particular take was the one that ended up in the film. So when you see Westley fall to the ground and pass out, that's not acting. That's an overzealous actor actually losing consciousness.

Cary Elwes

#4. Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours?"
"Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side.

William Goldman

#5. I didn't know Westley liked 'em pretty.
I didn't know Westley liked 'em at all.

Kelly Oram

#6. Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only, my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup." She looked at Humperdinck. "Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?"
"It does seem a bit forward," the Prince admitted.

William Goldman

#7. Westley: This is true love - you think this happens every day?

William Goldman

#8. Well, at least you'll get some down time to heal up before the chemo. Of course, that sounds kind of like in The Princess Bride when they heal Westley up before they torture him.

Abigail Barnette

#9. I can live without love. And with that she left Westley alone.

William Goldman

#10. Woman," Westley roared, "you are the property of the Dread Pirate Roberts and you ... do ... what ... you're ... told!

William Goldman

#11. Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

William Goldman

#12. You may look like a chick now Westley, but you've still got game.
Of course I do and if you weren't so easy to score on I might actually get to use it sometimes. This was barely a workout.
Girl, if you were looking to score all you had to do was say so. You have no idea how easy I can be.

Kelly Oram

#13. I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-'
I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

William Goldman

#14. My Westley will come for me.

William Goldman

#15. Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

William Goldman

#16. Westley stared at him carefully. "Victor ... I understand how you must feel but the rules Dracula upheld - "
"Were the same very rules that allowed the Dark World to fall," he finished coldly.

S.C. Parris

#17. Why do women love The Princess Bride so much? Here's a thought: because its hero, Westley, is able to simultaneously fill the roles of dashing romantic adventurer and seriously devoted (maybe even borderline henpecked) fiance.

Stephen H. Segal

#18. 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,

William Goldman

#19. A little maybe; 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, and you never heard.' ~ Westley

William Goldman

#20. I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.

Faith Sullivan

#21. Now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Helen Westley

#22. What's hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn't feel like enough. But it is.

America Ferrera

#23. Getting close to a woman, no matter if it's real or not, can backfire.

Carolyn Brown

#24. Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Alexandre Dumas

#25. Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard Paul Evans

#26. If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'

Dick Wolf

#27. In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

William Gibson

#28. The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

Helen Westley

#29. Those who don't try are destine for failure

Westley Tusa

#30. The value of a life is but your consciousness of its importance.

Westley Tusa

#31. People trudge through most days with little excitement in their lives. But our digital age provides so many opportunities to give people an authentic view of who you are or what your company strives to be, thus creating touch points of commonality that draw you into closer friendship with others.

Dale Carnegie

#32. Allows for imperfection - in yourself and others.

Frances R. Westley

#33. No lie ever reaches old age.

Sophocles

#34. I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#35. One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

William James

#36. But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

P.C. Cast

#37. A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.

Wu Wei

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

William Goldman

#39. Poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal would come from could I give myself up to ignoring that next meal; I could think of other things.

Helen Westley

#40. Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.

Lao-Tzu

#41. The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge.

Westley Tusa