72 Metaphor Quotes from Movies with Sound Clips - page 2

Last updated on: September 4, 2025

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.

11 I don't know if we dug it right, but we certainly dug it deep.

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

12 Never known a train yet that could resist following tracks.

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

13 Even the dead love roses.

Quote from The Green Jade Statuette (1977)

14 You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here. You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933)

15 Gray! The world is gray, Jack!

Quote from Clear and Present Danger

16 You witch! While I slept you turned a band of heroes into swine. -It was much easier to do than you think.

Quote from Ulysses (1954)

17 You think this is mink? Do you think these are the skins of little wild animals sewn together for your pleasure? You're mistaken. These are skins of human beings. People who have been beaten, sold, robbed doped and murdered by Mr. Brown.

Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

18 Yet it was I who said, is it not in the nature of the fig tree to give figs, as for the honey bee to give honey, and for the lion who fall upon the lamb?

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

19 Now, boy, flying is not merely some crude mechanical process. It is a delicate art, purely aesthetic, poetry of motion. And the best way to learn it is to do it.

Archimedes in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

20 After you, my little croissant.

Cheech Marin as Tito in Oliver & Company (1988)