At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

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

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.