The Princess Bride Quotes

[ as Buttercup prepares to commit suicide with a dagger ]
Westley : There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

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[ last lines ]
The Grandson : Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow.
Grandpa : As you wish.

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Miracle Max : Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe [ smacks his lips ]
Miracle Max : they're so perky, I love that.

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Miracle Max : Go away or I'll call the Brute Squad.
Fezzik : I'm on the Brute Squad.
Miracle Max : [ sees Fezzik ] You *are* the Brute Squad!

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Inigo Montoya : You know, Fezzik, you finally did something right.
Fezzik : Don't worry, I won't let it go to my head.

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Inigo Montoya : - I - am - waiting - for - Vizzini...
Fezzik : You surely are a meanie.
Fezzik : [ Inigo looks at him ] Hello.
Inigo Montoya : It's you.
Fezzik : True!

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Vizzini : Finish him. Finish him, your way.
Fezzik : Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... what's my way?
Vizzini : Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the man in black will come running around the bend, the minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock.
Fezzik : My way's not very sportsman-like.

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The Ancient Booer : Boo. Boo. Boo.
Buttercup : Why do you do this?
The Ancient Booer : Because you had love in your hands, and you gave it up.
Buttercup : But they would have killed Westley if I hadn't done it.
The Ancient Booer : Your true love lives. And you marry another. True Love saved her in the Fire Swamp, and she treated it like garbage. And that's what she is, the Queen of Refuse. So bow down to her if you want, bow to her. Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo.

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Westley : Can you move at all?
Buttercup : Move? You're alive. If you want I can fly.

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Buttercup : If you'll release me whatever you ask for ransom, you'll get it I promise you.
Man in Black : [ laughs ] And what is that worth, the promise of a woman? You're very funny Highness.

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Prince Humperdinck : She is alive, or was an hour ago. If she is otherwise when I find her I shall be very put out.

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Westley : No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley.

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Inigo Montoya : But, I promise I will not kill you until you reach the top.
Man in Black : That's VERY comforting, but I'm afraid you'll just have to wait.
Inigo Montoya : I hate waiting. I could give you my word as a Spaniard.
Man in Black : No good. I've known too many Spaniards.
Inigo Montoya : Isn't there any way you trust me?
Man in Black : Nothing comes to mind.
Inigo Montoya : I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive.
Man in Black : Throw me the rope.

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The Impressive Clergyman : Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... [ cut to Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik ]
The Impressive Clergyman : And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva... [ cut to the trio again ]
The Impressive Clergyman : So tweasure your wuv.
Prince Humperdinck : Skip to the end.
The Impressive Clergyman : Have you the wing? [ cut to the trio once more ]
The Impressive Clergyman : ...and do you,Pwincess Buwwercup...
Prince Humperdinck : Man and wife. Say man and wife.
The Impressive Clergyman : Man an' wife.

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Vizzini : You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen.

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Buttercup : You can die too for all I care. [ pushes him down a high hill ]
Man in Black : AS... YOU... WISH.
Buttercup : [ realizes Man in Black is Westley ] Oh my sweet Westley what have I done. [ throws herself down the hill ]

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Buttercup : You're the Dread Pirate Roberts, admit it.
Man in Black : With pride. What can I do for you?
Buttercup : You can die slowly, cut into a thousand pieces.
Man in Black : Tsk, tsk. That's hardly complementary Highness. Why loose your venom on me?
Buttercup : You killed my love.
Man in Black : It's possible. I kill a lot of people.

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Inigo Montoya : I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills. There's not a lot of money in revenge.

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Fezzik : Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?
Man in Black : Oh no, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.

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The Grandson : They're kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?

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[ Buttercup and Westley have just entered the Fire Swamp ]
Westley : [ looking around ] It's not that bad. [ Buttercup stares unbelievingly at him ]
Westley : Well, I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

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Grandpa : Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End.

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Inigo Montoya : Is very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
Westley : Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.

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Miracle Max : You got any money?
Inigo Montoya : Sixty-five.
Miracle Max : I've never worked for so little. Except once, and that was a very noble cause.
Inigo Montoya : This is noble, sir. His wife is... crippled. His children are on the brink of starvation.
Miracle Max : Are you a rotten liar.
Inigo Montoya : I need him to help avenge my father, murdered these twenty years.
Miracle Max : Your first story was better.

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Count Rugen : You must be that little Spanish brat I taught a lesson to all those years ago. You've been chasing me your whole life only to fail now? I think that's about the worst thing I've ever heard. [ pause ]
Count Rugen : How marvelous.

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[ Inigo tells Westley about his pursuit of the six-fingered man ]
Man in Black : You've done nothing but study swordplay?
Inigo Montoya : More pursuing than studying, lately. You see, I cannot find him. It's been twenty years now. I'm starting to lose confidence.

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Miracle Max : [ Lifts and drops the arm of the dead Westley ] I've seen worse.

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Miracle Max : He probably owes you money huh? I'll ask him.
Inigo Montoya : He's dead. He can't talk.
Miracle Max : Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya : What's that?
Miracle Max : Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

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[ after defeating Fezzik, who lays on the ground unconscious ]
Man in Black : I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women.

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Inigo Montoya : But this is Buttercup's true love - If you heal him, he will stop Humperdinck's wedding.
Miracle Max : Wait. Wait. I make him better, Humperdinck suffers?
Inigo Montoya : Humiliations galore!
Miracle Max : That is a noble cause. Give me the sixty-five, I'm on the job.

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