William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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

"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."

"Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?"

"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."

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

"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."

"Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?"

"Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)"

"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

"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."

"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.)"

"When I was your age, television was called books."

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

"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."

"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.)"

"Now what happens?"asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended,"Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone.""You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?"

"Who says life is fair, where is that written?"

"Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

"Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."