15 Movie Quotes about Empty Promises (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 31, 2025

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

1 Master! Master! You promised me eternal life, but you give it to the pretty woman!

Tom Waits as Renfield in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

2 Promised. He promised me. Oh, well, what's a Yankee's promise worth anyway? -Nothin'.

Dirk Benedict as Faceman in The A-Team

3 Och! That's a piecrust promise. Easily made, easily broken.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

4 Remember when I promised to kill you last? -That's right. You did. -I lied.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colonel John Matrix in Commando (1985)

5 Very good! But still, you ought to know by now that I never keep any of my promises to anybody!

Quote from The Invincible Armour

6 But why do they put a guarantee on the box then? -'Cause they know all they sold you was a guaranteed piece of _. That's all it is, isn't it?

Chris Farley as Tommy Callahan in Tommy Boy (1995)

7 Now, wait a minute... Was this a promise? And if it was a promise, was it witnessed and notarized? Because, I, for one, want to say, right here and now that I am not honoring any undocumented promises. No way!

Dwight Schultz as Howling Mad Murdock in The A-Team

8 And if it doesn't go, I will. I can promise you that. -Promises, promises. Always promises.

Harry H. Corbett as Sergeant Sidney Bung in Carry On Screaming!

9 It's not enough, but I'll take this. And when you get more, I'll see what I can do... Which will be nothing.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

10 Everyone's got his price. All I gotta do is offer him whatever he wants, and then not give it to him.

George C. Scott as Percival C. McLeach in The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

15 Movie Quotes about Empty Promises (+ Sound Clips)

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