43 Latin Phrases from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 14, 2026

Famous latin phrases used in movies, ranked and accompanied by short MP3 and WAV soundbites.

1 Sanctis apostolis omnibus sanctis.

Quote from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2 Memobis quelitor Della cassum!

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

3 And in that balloon, my dear Dorothy, you and I will return to the land of E Pluribus Unum.

Quote from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

4 Come on, Steve. We've got diem to carpe.

Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

5 I, your Wizard per ardua ad Alta, am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere!

Frank Morgan as The Wizard Of Oz in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

6 We have a plan! E pluribus unum!

Madeline Kahn as Gussie Mausheimer in An American Tail

7 Definitely non compos mentis. Better summon the authorities.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

8 Solvet saeclum in favilla. Dies irae, Dies irae.

Quote from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

9 Quid pro quo, Doctor. (2)

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

10 Dictu jubentis vivida upitidas... Repelle, quod cupidinis ciente vi nos impetit!

Quote from Halloweentown