Thursday, August 03, 2006

Thursday Thirteen: The Princess Quotes


Thirteen Princess Bride Quotes
Most Often Heard at SCONE's House
  1. "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
  2. "Truly you have a dizzying intellect."
  3. "Yes, you're very smart. Shut up."
  4. "Where was I?" "Australia."
  5. "Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
  6. "No good. I've known too many Spaniards." (Or sailors, or whatever...)
  7. "Get used to disappointment."
  8. "I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely."
  9. "I didn't mean to jog him so hard."
  10. "I can cope with torture."
  11. "I'll use small words so you'll be sure to understand."
  12. "This is true love. You think this happens every day?"
  13. "Goodnight, sleep well, I'll most likely kill you in the morning."

[Update: My husband pointed out that I had the same quote twice. So I changed #12. This should help the attitude problem these quotes seem to have.]

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14 comments:

Mama Kelly said...

one of our favorite movies of all time

i adore the scene where hes rolling down the hill saying

"aaaaaas yooooou wiiiiiiish"

LOL

Anonymous said...

#13 I love that one!

My TT is up!

Carmen said...

stop that rhyming, I mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (I used that one today!)

i could go on forever, but I'll stop now.

Anonymous said...

dude, what a tough household ;-)

Thanks for visiting!

Anonymous said...

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The first and most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia. But only slightly less famous is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha....thunk.

Hee, hee, hee. Now I gotta get out the old DVD again.

Julie said...

I've never seen The Princess Bride. I'll have to put it on my Netflix list...it sounds funny.

K said...

Fun list!!! Happy Thursday!!

Raggedy said...

That was a fun list!

My TT is up

Shannon said...

Oh man! Carmen beat me to my favorite quote.

Oh well, kindred spirits tend to do that, right Scone?

Anonymous said...

Love, love, love this movie! Jenny, a TT newbie :)

Anonymous said...

Oh..one of my favorite movies. Reading the list made me want to go and watch it again!

Jen said...

I love that movie!

[i]"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous 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!"[/i]

My dad and I toss this around, usually only the first part, so it goes like this, "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: Never buy your wife a vacuum cleaner for Mother's Day" or any other thing that one of us has done that seems like a classic blunder...

Jen said...

Nice, I meant to actually make it italics. The new message board for my homeschool group is UBB instead of HTML, and I'm getting all cornfused.

Sigh.

Scone said...

I'm glad other people love this movie as much as I do. You're right, Carmen, you could just go on-- the whole movie is a big string of quotable lines. I didn't put in all of our favorites-- like, "Wait till I get going!", the land war in Asia one (I do that same thing, Jen!), and the "It's possible..." line.

Here's a bit of trivia for PB buffs: there really was a dread pirate named Roberts-- Bartholomew Roberts, aka Black Bart. He was known as the most successful pirate on the Spanish Main, although nobody can figure out how he managed to capture 400+ ships when he was only marauding 4 years. He started as a sailor on a ship called "Princess"-- and that, as Andy Rooney said, is the rest of the story.