22 Movie Quotes about Common Sense (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 14, 2025

Memorable quotes about common sense, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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?

Quote from 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 Don't be a fool! By the time you bait the hook, the fish'll be gone! Where's your common sense?

Martha Raye as Annabella Bonheur in Monsieur Verdoux

5 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)

6 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)

7 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)

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

Quote from Elf (2003)

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

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

10 I'm no dummy. It's basic common sense and arithmetic.

Quote from New Jack City