Buttercup Quotes

• Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Flower, Sunshine, Gold

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

  William Goldman

  Wall, Princess, Heart

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look bravely up into the sky,
  And be content with knowing
  That God wished for a buttercup
  Just here, where you are growing.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Sky, Knowing, Looks

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1999). “The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett”, Ironweed PressInc

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• Buttercups and daisies,
  Oh, the pretty flowers;
  Coming ere the spring time,
  To tell of sunny hours.
  When the trees are leafless;
  When the fields are bare;
  Buttercups and daisies
  Spring up here and there.

  Mary Howitt

  Spring, Flower, Tree

  Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.130

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• Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

  William Goldman

  Beautiful, Mind, Enough

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.126, A&C Black

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• I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Summer, Boys, Hair

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• The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, July, Bees

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

  e. e. cummings

  Bullying, Sorry, Flower

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Done, Surprise

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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• Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.

  Richard Grossinger

  Light, Wings, Yellow

  Richard Grossinger (2011). “The Bardo of Waking Life”, p.87, North Atlantic Books

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• All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
  The buttercups, the little children's dower.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Gay, Littles

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.96, Everyman's Library

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• I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.

  William Goldman

  Mean, Loyal, Marry Me

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.62, A&C Black

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• The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

  William Goldman

  Feet, Tree, Tears

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] "You can die too for all I care," she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. "As...you...wish..."

  William Goldman

  Men, Black, Wish

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, 1973.

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• Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you. Buttercup: But how can you be sure? Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day? Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? Buttercup: Well...you were dead. Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. Buttercup: i will never doubt again. Westley: There will never be a need.

  William Goldman

  Princess, Love You, Thinking

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• The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

  Edwin Arnold

  Gold, Coats, Royal

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

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• Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.

  Angela Carter

  Country, Rain, Unique

  Angela Carter (2016). “Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories”, p.81, Random House

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• Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. It was a very long and very green night.

  William Goldman

  Night, Long, People

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

  William Goldman

  Beautiful, Powerful, Princess

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no room in my body for anything but you.

  William Goldman

  Body, Rooms

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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• The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdinck. 'Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?

  William Goldman

  Sweet, Passion, Eye

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• Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Looks, Hey, Fields

  Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

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• 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.

  William Goldman

  Track, Bonds Of Love, Break

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

  John Gay

  Blow, Daisies, Meadows

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cat, Attention, Cubes

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1176, Scholastic Inc.

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