102 Metaphor Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

A selection of metaphor quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

91 No, no, no, that rose has too many thorns for me.

Quote from The Green Jade Statuette (1977)

92 Compared to Clouseau, this Doomsday Machine is just a water pistol.

Herbert Lom as Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

93 Wine? It looks like blood. -It is. The blood of the earth.

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses; Kirk Douglas as Polyphemus in Ulysses (1954)

94 We want a city of our own, just like you do, Remus. -But if we all should die in this headlong race what can we expect to build? A city of corpses?

Steve Reeves as Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

95 What are those? -Little black flowers that grow in the sky.

Dana Andrews as Fred Derry; Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

96 Heaven isn't too far. -Heaven is where you are.

Jodi Benson as Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994)

97 Oh, lucky Paris. You could fall in the black pit of Hades and come out with your arms full of sunshine.

Harry Andrews as Hector Of Troy in Helen of Troy (1956)

98 I was looking... up at the 102nd floor. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You see, you were there.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

99 I knew there was a core of something... well there is a core, and now I know what it is. A sponge. And to soak it full you'll do anything that's ruthless, selfish, dishonest.

Jane Wyman as Helen St. James in The Lost Weekend (1945)

100 It's not the lash they fear... it is my divine power.

Rodrigo Santoro as King Xerxes in 300