The Princess Bride (1987)

Chris Sarandon: Prince Humperdinck

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• Prince Humperdinck : First things first, to the death.

  Westley : No. To the pain.

  Prince Humperdinck : I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.

  Westley : I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

  Prince Humperdinck : That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.

  Westley : It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.

  Prince Humperdinck : And then my tongue I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time. A mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.

  Westley : I wasn't finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right.

  Prince Humperdinck : And then my ears, I understand let's get on with it.

  Westley : WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain means." It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.

  Prince Humperdinck : I think you're bluffing.

  Westley : It's possible, Pig, I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again... perhaps I have the strength after all.

  [slowly rises and points sword directly at the prince] 

  Westley : DROP... YOUR... SWORD!

  Prince Humperdinck : [Humperdinck's mouth hangs open, drops sword to floor] 

• Prince Humperdinck : Surrender.

  Westley : You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.

• The Impressive Clergyman : Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today. 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.

• Buttercup : Oh, Westley, will you ever forgive me?

  Westley : What hideous sin have you committed lately?

  Buttercup : I got married. I didn't want to - it all happened so fast.

  Westley : Never happened.

  Buttercup : What?

  Westley : Never happened.

  Buttercup : But it did! I was there; this old man said 'man and wife.'

  Westley : Did you say 'I do?'

  Buttercup : Um, no... we sort of skipped that part.

  Westley : Then you're not married. You didn't say it; you didn't do it.

  Westley : [to the Prince who has just entered the room]  Wouldn't you agree, Your Highness?

  Prince Humperdinck : A technicality that will shortly be remedied.

• Count Rugen : Your princess is quite a winning creature. A trifle simple, perhaps. Her appeal is undeniable.

  Prince Humperdinck : I know, the people are quite taken with her. It's odd, but when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered on our engagement day, I thought that was clever. But it's going to be so much more moving when I strangle her on our wedding night. Once Guilder is blamed, the nation will truly be outraged - they'll demand we go to war.

  Count Rugen : [snickers, then examines a huge tree]  Now where is that secret knot? It's impossible to find...

  [he finds it and the tree opens to reveal a hidden passage] 

  Count Rugen : Ah. Are you coming down into the pit? Wesley's got his strength back. I'm starting him on the machine tonight.

  Prince Humperdinck : [sincerely]  Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.

  Count Rugen : Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything.

• Prince Humperdinck : [draws sword]  For the last time, surrender!

  Westley : DEATH FIRST!

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

• Prince Humperdinck : You truly love each other and so you might have been truly happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the story books say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will.

• Prince Humperdinck : You truly love each other? Then you might have been truly happy! No couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the storybooks say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will

  [Throws the lever on the Machine up to the highest setting] 

  Count Rugen : Not to Fifty!

  Westley : [Writhes and howls] 

  Inigo Montoya : Fezzik, do you hear that? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Count Rugen killed my father. The Man in Black makes it now.

  Fezzik : The Man in Black?

  Inigo Montoya : His true love is marry Prince Humperdinck tonight, so who else has cause for ultimate suffering?

• Prince Humperdinck : Please consider me as an alternative to suicide.

• Westley : Never happened.

  Buttercup : It did! This old man said "Man and Wife"

  Westley : Did you say "I do"

  Buttercup : No, we sort of skipped that part.

  Westley : Then you're not married. If you didn't say it, you didn't do it. Wouldn't you agree, your Highness?

  Prince Humperdinck : A technicality that will shortly be remedied.

• Prince Humperdinck : Someone has beaten a Giant. There will be much suffering in Guilder if she dies.

• Prince Humperdinck : [blooper reel]  "My people! A month from now... I've forgotten my line!"

• Prince Humperdinck : My father's final words were...

  The Grandson : [interrupting]  Hold it! Hold it, Grandpa!