William Goldman Quotes

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.