Quotes by William Goldman

William Goldman

“I could give you my word as a Spaniard,” Inigo said. “No good,” the man in black replied. “I’ve known too many Spaniards.”

Black

Giving

Men

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.

Children

Life

Lying

And what have I done?” What? WHAT?…You’ve stolen them.” With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who “them” was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

Beef

Boys

Done

But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

Choices

Heart

Morning

Buttercup’s mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

Home

Mother

Night

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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

Beach

Love

Soulmate

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

Buttercup

Tanks

Enough about my beauty,” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

Beautiful

Enough

Mind

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

Flaws

Humiliation

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Adventure

Agony

Answers

Arguing

Art

Asia

Beach

Beautiful

Beauty

Beef

Black

Book

Boys

Buttercup

Careers

Children

Choices

Couple

Cracks

Different

Difficult

Disappointment

Discovery

Doe

Done

Doors

Dream

Dying

Earth

Effort

Ells

Emotional

Emotional Outbursts

Enemy

Enough

Eternity

Eye

Father

Feet

Flames

Flaws

Forever

Funny

Giants

Girl

Giving

Good Night

Goodnight

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Quotes by William Goldman

William Goldman

“I could give you my word as a Spaniard,” Inigo said. “No good,” the man in black replied. “I’ve known too many Spaniards.”

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.

And what have I done?” What? WHAT?…You’ve stolen them.” With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who “them” was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

Buttercup’s mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

Enough about my beauty,” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

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