139 Movie Quotes about Rules (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Aug 14, 2025

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

71 But there's such a thing as society, you know - laws, rules. I don't mean I necessarily believe in them, but after all, no man's an island.

Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

72 Oh, yeah. Don't drive on the railroad tracks! -Well, Phil, that's one I happen to agree with.

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

73 He doesn't know it, but I do. You'd leave your own mother here if the rules called for it.

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

74 How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!

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

75 I know you won't break the rules. There aren't any.

Quote from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

76 There should be same set of rules for everyone, no matter what age. He's got to learn how to lose, too.

Rob Schneider as Nazo in Big Daddy

77 Now if you follow these rules then you'll become strong in both body and spirit.

Quote from Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu

78 If I come in here in the morning, and I tell you to do something, and when I come back at night, if that thing isn't done, you get one demerit. And you'll get one demerit every time you don't do something that I tell ya.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

79 Aw, now, listen, big shot, they'll tell you what time you get up in the morning, and what time you go to bed at night. They'll tell you what you eat, what kind of clothes you can wear, what you drink. They'll even tell you the morning paper you can read.

Humphrey Bogart as Alfred "Gloves" Donahue in All Through the Night (1942)

80 I used to be scared of breaking the rules, too, of getting caught. But I always felt better afterwards. -After you were caught? -Mm-hmm. See, the people I didn't think would understand, well, they always did understand.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet