270 Movie Quotes about War (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 There was a nuclear war... A few years from now.

Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese in The Terminator

22 Um, what else? I hate that 300 kilometers from here, there's a war going on, people are dying and nobody knows what to do about it. Or they don't give a _, I don't know.

Julie Delpy as Céline in Before Sunrise

23 Oh, I was just thinking, what if the war's over, and I never had the chance to fight?

Taran Wanderer in The Black Cauldron

24 Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace.

Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia

25 Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

26 'Except to say go to the mattresses'... What? What does that mean? -It's from The Godfather. It means you have to go to war.

Quote from You've Got Mail

27 The answer to your question is: Go to the mattresses. You're at war. It's not personal, it's business.

Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in You've Got Mail

28 We are too old for war. -Yes, we are too old for war, but old men should stop wars.

John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

29 This is war, Peacock. Casualties are inevitable. You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. Every cook will tell you that. -But look what happened to the cook!

Quote from Clue (1985)

30 Been in the wars, have we? -Yes. -Any headache? Bowels all right?

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life