Princess Bride Westley Quotes & Sayings

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament. — Mike Weir

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal." — Henri Nouwen

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning. — William Goldman

There's a great deal of power in pretending. — Suzanne Palmieri

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be. — Jim Rohn

The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful. — Brandon Stanton

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals — Rick Riordan

In this world of many consequences, people help people to achieve or to fail, take care of whom to trust. — Auliq Ice

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. — David Brooks

Tired from my all-nighter with my friends, I just kept walking, my head bursting with their conversations, the things I had learned-Laura had had to take the morning-after pill-but none were as loud as the conversations I was having with myself in my head. That, I could never switch off. I don't think I'd ever thought so much, and talked so little, in my life. — Cecelia Ahern

Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you.
Buttercup: But how can you be sure?
Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day?
Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me?
Buttercup: Well ... you were dead.
Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
Buttercup: i will never doubt again.
Westley: There will never be a need. — William Goldman

I remember Guillermo saying the cracks and breaks were the best and most interesting parts of the work in my portfolio. Perhaps it's the same with people and their cracks and breaks. — Jandy Nelson

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match. — Bubba Smith

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment. — Ayn Rand

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

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

I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud — Carl Sandburg