70 Movie Quotes about Obedience (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about obedience, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

31 But, alas, I have not yet been elected queen of the universe, so, I must obey the rules, and so will you.

Drew Barrymore as Karen Pomeroy in Donnie Darko

32 And I want instant obedience to all commands. I'll court marshal the first man who doesn't jump to what he's ordered.

Wendell Holmes in X Minus One

33 For you to say, sir. -No, it's not. I've got orders to obey, thank God.

Jack Hawkins as General Allenby in Lawrence of Arabia

34 Listen, kiddo, when a man like your colonel suggests something, it's an order.

William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

35 'Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die'. -Die? -Merely quoting, sir, from Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Tim Curry as Wadsworth in Clue (1985)

36 You don't have to do this. You don't have to take orders. -I like orders.

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

37 Always he tells them what to do. And they does it. But not Miss Lila. She goes her own way, living or dead.

Madame Sul Te Wan in Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

38 The result is what you see: a woman without any willpower, unable to speak or even act by herself. Though she will obey simple commands.

James Bell as Dr. Maxwell in I Walked with a Zombie

39 Soldiers, they fight for kings they've never even met. They do what they're told, die when they're told to die. -Soldiers obey.

Quote from Troy

40 Sometimes you have to serve in order to lead. I hope you understand that one day.

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy