The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character in the novel The Princess Bride and its film adaptation.
Read more about Dread Pirate Roberts: Role in The Princess Bride, Popular Culture, History
Famous quotes containing the words dread, pirate and/or roberts:
“I sing what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The pirate gaped at Belinda’s dragon,
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,
He fired two bullets, but they didn’t hit,
And Custard gobbled him, every bit.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“That’s life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.”
—Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts (Tom Neal)