Last Updated on 21 June 2024

The Princess Bride (1987) quotes

  • As you wish.
  • Beat it or I’ll call the Brute Squad.
    I’m on the Brute Squad.
    You ARE the Brute Squad!
  • Give us the gate key.
    I have no gate key.
    Fezzik, tear his arms off.
    Oh, you mean this gate key.
  • Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.
  • Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow.
    As you wish.
  • Have fun storming the castle!
    Think it’ll work?
    It would take a miracle.
  • Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
  • I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women.
  • I do not mean to pry, but you don’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?
    Do you always begin conversations this way?
  • I’m not left-handed either.
  • Inconceivable!
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
  • Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam…
  • No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley.
  • Surrender!
    You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.
  • That’s right. When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I’m gonna read it to you.
  • We’ll never survive.
    Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
  • You are using Bonetti’s Defense against me, ah?
    I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain.
    Naturally, you must expect me to attack with Capo Ferro?
    Naturally, but I find that Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro. Don’t you?
    Unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa… which I have!
  • You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” – but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line”! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha … [thud]!

Loading