22 Movie Quotes about Compromise (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 31, 2025

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

1 Now, we're not gonna do it, doggone it. It's degrading. It's undignified. -Well, so is an empty stomach.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor; Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

2 50-50. -You happy? -No. -You happy? -No! -Deal!

Robert De Niro as Don Lino; Martin Scorsese as Sykes in Shark Tale

3 Let's compromise. Supposing we leave just a couple of things behind? -Right. Two wives.

Quote from Mister Ed

4 Frank, we must all compromise.

Robert Vaughn as Walter Chalmers in Bullitt (1968)

5 I said, you win. -Win what? -I'll be your dumb decoy duck.

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man (1949)

6 There are times when we have to make compromises with the truth. You know, give a little, yield a point in order to gain our end. -Like getting your college education and helping your family out.

Rosemary DeCamp as Loretta in The Future Is Yours (1948)

7 I've sold out. Like everybody else, I've sold out.

Danny Hjelm as Schroeder in Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)

8 That's actually a pretty good compromise right there.

Quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

9 You can tolerate a little compromise if you're actually managing to get something accomplished.

Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore; Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)

10 All right, then, gentlemen, we are all friends again.

Otto Preminger as Colonel Von Scherbach in Stalag 17 (1953)