36 Movie Quotes about Retreat (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 16, 2025

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

11 Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender.

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300

12 Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat.

Graham Chapman as Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

13 Open fire and retreat from the planet.

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

14 We're outnumbered! I suggest a strategic retreat for regrouping!

Prowl in The Transformers (1984)

15 Maybe you've been using the wrong tactics. Instead of retreat, maybe you should be advancing.

Humphrey Bogart as Major Jed Webbe in Battle Circus (1953)

16 We need to retreat! -My army's never lost a battle yet! -You won't have an army if you don't fall back!

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

17 A retreating army is hardly ever in love with its commander.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

18 No, better use many styles. If you really want to win, you'll have to be flexible. So, when they advance, retreat. Always, you use the opposite technique to them.

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

19 Jumping jellybeans! There's a whole army of them! -Yeah, and I'm gonna show them a good old army maneuver: Retreat! Quick, in here!

Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake; Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

20 I'm going home. I'm gonna find myself a closet so that I can hide in it.

Charles Laughton as Ruggles in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

36 Movie Quotes about Retreat (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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