16 Movie Quotes about Sobriety (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 23, 2025

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

1 Yes, I shall refrain as well. I've made a solemn promise to someone. -Really? -Yes, I promised my doctor I wouldn't engage in that sort of thing.

Matthew Perry as Leslie Edwards in Almost Heroes (1998)

2 Let us toast the quest. -No, no, my dear. Cider makes evil magic in the stomach.

Harry Morgan as Carolinus in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

3 Drink this. It will dull your pain. -No. It will numb my wits, and I must have them all.

Sophie Marceau as Isabella Of France in Braveheart (1995)

4 Um, would you like a glass of wine? -No, thanks. I never drink when I fly.

Margot Kidder as Lois Lane; Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent Superman in Superman (1978)

5 The liquor is good, so they tell me. But I don't drink it, myself.

Edward G. Robinson as Little Caesar in Little Caesar (1931)

6 No more drinking in this town of intoxicating liquors. -Thank you. That, I feel sure, will be in the public interest.

Alec Guinness in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)

7 Perhaps you'd also better turn all the beer in the public houses into water, just to be on the safe side.

Alec Guinness as Narrator in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)

8 Thank you, ma'am. I never drink. I find it interferes with my profession.

Laurence Olivier in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

9 Aren't you drinking? I don't drink. -Not ever? -I'm quite content with reality. I have no need for escape.

Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala; David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton in The Pink Panther (1963)

10 In about 10 minutes, he's gonna be as sober as a priest on Sunday.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part III

16 Movie Quotes about Sobriety (+ Sound Clips)

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