16 Movie Quotes about Garlic (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 18, 2026

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

1 Wait... that garlic. I'd better put it back where it belongs. I can't live a heartbeat away from hell and forget it.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

2 What are you afraid of? -I don't understand you. -Why all these garlic flowers? And over the window? And up here? They're not for decoration, are they?

Peter Cushing as Abraham Van Helsing in Horror of Dracula (1958)

3 You must get some garlic flowers, as many as you can. Place them by her windows, and her door and by her bedside. They may be taken out during the day, but under no circumstances, even if the patient implores you, must they be removed at night.

Peter Cushing as Abraham Van Helsing in Horror of Dracula (1958)

4 Your brain is full of spiders, you've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch.

Quote from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

5 It's garlic! It's nothing but common garlic!

Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

6 A young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places because he's trapped. Yes, sir, trapped into frittering his life away, playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters.

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

7 You wanna know what truth is? Hmm? I'll tell you what truth is. Truth is... pimples, and garlic, armpits. That's what truth is.

Quote from The Mack (1973)

8 I had onions at lunch. I had garlic dressing at dinner. But he'll never know because I stay kissing-sweet the new Dazzledent way.

Marilyn Monroe as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

9 Garlic, to keep out the Bogeyman. There is no Bogeyman anymore, and if there was this wouldn't keep him out.

Andrew Keir as Father Sandor in Dracula: Prince of Darkness

10 What's the matter now? -You know what's the matter. I want my chop! Varnished with garlic!

Stan Laurel as Stan in Utopia (1951)