440 Paradox Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 43

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

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

421 Be careful, do not touch him. He's dead. -He is alive. -That's worse.

Nausicaa From The Odyssey in Ulysses (1954)

422 A dilemma is when there are only two possibilities and both of them are impossible. That is a dilemma.

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

423 Known, yet not known. -Known and not known? How can that be?

Sophia Loren as Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

424 Thieves who steal from other thieves. They wear a crown, but they're still thieves.

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

425 I can believe anything provided that it is quite incredible. -I'm afraid this will seem so.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton; Lowell Gilmore as Basil Hallward in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

426 There's only one way to get rid of a temptation and that's to yield to it. Resist it and the soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

427 There is nothing that can cure the soul but the senses. Just as there is nothing that can cure the senses but the soul.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

428 You think he could be so unfaithful? -Faithfulness is merely laziness.

Lowell Gilmore as Basil Hallward in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

429 My father used to say, It's a funny thing, but the things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening. I told you he drank like a fish.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

430 You won't be back no more. If you want some more, come on back.

Eric Laneuville as Quincy in Black Belt Jones (1974)