270 Movie Quotes about War (+ Sound Clips) - page 22

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

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

211 And a properly prepared nation is a nation seldom attacked. The war that they are ready for rarely comes.

Quote from The 39 Steps (1937)

212 What are you trying to do, win the war single-handed?

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

213 What's all this supposed to be? -War, brother. Ain't it hell?

June Allyson as Lt. Ruth McCara in Battle Circus (1953)

214 All set? -Is this the end for us? -I don't know. How can you outguess a war?

Quote from Battle Circus (1953)

215 Perhaps that's why the birds are leaving so early this spring. They're afraid of the planes. -Yes, they're leaving us to fend for ourselves.

Laurence Olivier as Narrator in The Snow Goose (1954)

216 I'll say this for the old man. He's got guts. -Into the valley of death Rode the 600. -How's that, sir? -That kind of guts. Also the kind they had in 1914 when your officers went over the top with nothing but a swagger stick.

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

217 Give him the battle, we'll take the war.

Quote from Troy

218 By God, that man does war honor.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

219 For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: The wheel, New York, wars and on. Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

220 50000 men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves... today.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans