William Goldman Quotes

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
• Nobody knows anything.
• True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
• Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
• 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…
• Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
• Who says life is fair, where is that written?
• 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…
• Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line…
• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture.…
• 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…
• You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is…
• Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
• My Westley will come for me.
• 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…
• You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this…
• Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.…
• 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…
• Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going…

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