37 Movie Quotes about Duty (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 11, 2025

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

21 Now, listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live.

Jack Hawkins as Quintus Arrius in Ben-Hur (1959)

22 We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well and live.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

23 Duty! Being blown to bits on some godforsaken battlefield, thousands of miles from where he was born. You call that duty?

Quote from Suddenly (1954)

24 Okay. Maybe I am not meant for these duties. Cooking duty. Dead guy duty.

Quote from Nacho Libre

25 Now I can get back to more important duties. -And leave us to ours.

Quote from Bride of Frankenstein

26 The duty of this hospital is to save what casualties we have, not to make new ones.

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

27 Are you trying to intimidate an officer in the pursuit of his duty? -Who's trying to imitate anybody?

Quote from Christmas in July (1944)

28 We police have to put up with a lot of things in the course of our duties that in private life one wouldn't normally tolerate.

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

29 Pooh. What have you done? -What a pooh had to do, I believe.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

30 My son was killed in the performance of his duty, Ellen.