15 Movie Quotes about Abstinence (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about abstinence, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 Ah, you're all monks. You're not allowed to eat meat, am I right? -That's right. -Then I won't give it to you. And you can't blame me. -No, we won't. It's not your fault.

Sho Kosugi as Cho Osaki in Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

12 I've given up sex. -Oh. Quel brutto memento. -I've given up sex.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark (1964)

13 The liquor is good, so they tell me. But I don't drink it, myself.

Edward G. Robinson as Little Caesar in Little Caesar (1931)

14 Oh, I never touch it, I never have. It runs in my family not to. The demon rhum.

Harold Lloyd as Harold Diddlebock in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

15 No screwing, no drinking, no opium, no midnight abortions, no illegitimate children, no shady finances.

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)