26 Movie Quotes about Principles (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: June 28, 2025

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

1 Now, we're not gonna do it, doggone it. It's degrading. It's undignified. -Well, so is an empty stomach.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

2 It's a basic principle of the universe that every action will create an equal and opposing reaction.

Hugo Weaving as V in V for Vendetta

3 I call it the Nefario Principle. I just came up with it now, actually.

Quote from Despicable Me

4 First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

5 It's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

Bill Pullman as Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)

6 It's hard enough to make a living in the boxing world, so every now and then you gotta do something that might not agree with your principles. Basically, you have to forget you got any.

Jason Statham as Turkish in Snatch

7 To break the laws of nature is always a dangerous and we've not only broken laws, we've violated some basic principles. We had to, but now we're gonna stop.

Quote from The Tingler (1959)

8 That's all my high principles are worth. I'm ashamed of myself.

Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day

9 You seem to have forgotten the principles of our profession. Let me introduce you to a couple of friends who can explain them to you.

Quote from Five Fingers of Death

10 Yes, I understand. Truly. But don't you see? It's a matter of principle. If we give in now, there'll be no end to it. No.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai