145 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Oct 13, 2025

Memorable quotes about history, selected from famous or less known movies 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.'

Robert Montgomery as Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps (1937)

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

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

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

Karl Swenson as 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.

Brian Bedford as Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1973)

27 Ooh. Nice ugly history.

Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters II

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

Mel Gibson as William Wallace in 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?

Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

145 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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