25 Movie Quotes about Common Sense (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

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

1 And if they told you wolverines would make good house pets, would you believe them?

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

2 And if you hit any rocks, don't hit them with your head.

Burt Reynolds as Lewis in Deliverance (1972)

3 Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. (2)

Maureen O’Hara in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

4 When you gamble, you always lose. Don't deceive yourself. Be sensible, don't be stupid.

Quote from Yoga and the Kung Fu Girl (1979)

5 One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

6 Does this make any sense? -Not really, but that's common after a head injury.

Sandra Bullock as Lucy Eleanor Moderatz in While You Were Sleeping (1995)

7 Political arguments don't flavour folks' supper.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

8 He was a man of high ideals, so-called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.

Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

9 First off, you see gum on the street, leave it there. It's not free candy. Oh.

Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf in Elf (2003)

10 Dreams. Always dreams with you. Never common sense.

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett Ohara in Gone with the Wind (1939)