142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about history, 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 Fantasy? No. No. It's history. It's happening.

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)

22 You weren't here when the real disturbances began. Civilization tried to destroy itself.

Nigel Hawthorne as Raymond Cocteau in Demolition Man

23 One of the truest utterances of the great French general, Marshal Foch, was his statement to a group of his espionage agents. 'You will die a thousand deaths, before oblivion comes, while the man in the trenches dies but once.'

Quote from The 39 Steps (1937)

24 Now that's what I call a knight to remember.

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

25 A dark age, indeed! Age of inconvenience. No plumbing. No electricity. No nothing.

Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

26 Incredible as he is inept, whenever the history books are kept, they'll call him the phoney king of England.

Quote from Robin Hood (1973)

27 Ooh. Nice ugly history.

Quote from Ghostbusters II

28 Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Quote from Braveheart (1995)

29 When I was a boy and rock and roll came to east Germany, the communists said it was subversive. Maybe they were right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colonel John Matrix in Commando (1985)

30 Duh. But the question is, should the reader feel relief or sadness at the passing of the old South?

Quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby