Punishment quotes

“- Mr. Wormwood: Are you being smart with me? If you're being smart with me, young lady, you're going to be punished.
- Matilda: Punished for being smart?
- Mr. Wormwood: For being a smart aleck!”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood
Mara Wilson - Matilda

“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“Because of your thoughtlessness, we've missed the field trip lunch at McDonald's - which the students on the other buses are now enjoying. We will return to school, for a cold lunch. In the cafeteria.”

Brenda Devine - Mrs. Spinnler

“If you ever so much as blink in her direction again, I can and will bury you so far in the ground that the heat from the earth's core will incinerate your sorry ass!”

Joan Cusack - Jenny Portman

“Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.”
Nicole Kidman - Silvia Broome

“We work for Mr. Tunstall as regulators. We regulate any stealing off his property. We're damn good too! Mr. Tunstall's got a soft spot for runaways, darelicts, vagrant types. But you can't be any geek off the street, gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean, earn your keep.”
Casey Siemaszko - Charles 'Charley' Bowdre

“Chata, take him to the tower and teach him the error of false pride.”

Eduardo Ciannelli - Guru

“It would be fitting if I were apprehended and punished. At least there would be some small sign of justice, some small measure of hope for the possibility of meaning.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Chris Wilton

“- Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain.
- Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three. And on that day, you will reap it.
- Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish.”
Norman Reedus - Murphy MacManus
Sean Patrick Flanery - Connor MacManus

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“- Baby: Oh, you shouldn't have done that!
- Mary Knowles: Oh, really? Are you gonna do something about it?
- Baby: I'll do something, motherfucker… I’ll fucking cut your tits off and shove them down your throat!”

Sheri Moon Zombie - Baby
Jennifer Jostyn - Mary Knowles

“Cheating is a hell of a lot worse than being stupid. Plagiarism is an academic crime. It is punishable by academic death.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“- Mr. Welling: If you were my kids, I'd punish you.
- Stymie: If we were your kids, we'd punish ourselves!”
Mel Brooks - Mr. Welling
Kevin Jamal Woods - Stymie

“Hello nigger. I'm here to pay you back. I'll pay you all back.”
Michael Cole - Henry Bowers

- Dr. Berger: Maybe you were stronger. Did it ever occur to you that you might have been stronger? How long are you going to punish yourself? When are you going to quit?
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: Oh God, I'd like to quit...
Judd Hirsch - Berger
Timothy Hutton - Conrad

“- Judy Benjamin: What do you want from me? I didn't ask her to punish everybody! Do you think I like schlepping in the rain all day and all night?
- Pvt. Wanda Winter: Just keep marching, Benjamin.
- Judy Benjamin: My name is Judy! J-U-D-Y! Judy! And I'd like somebody to call me by my name! Oh, okay I took my life in my own hands, I made a...” (continue)(continue reading)

Goldie Hawn - Judy Benjamin
P.J. Soles - Pvt. Wanda Winter

“- Fletcher Christian Master's Mate: Don't put Adams under the lash.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: He was insubordinate, cowardly and insubordinate, he frightened the men, I did not put that fear there, he did. So he will be lashed and we will go around the Horn. Are you frightened to go around the Horn, Mr. Christian? Are you a coward too, sir?”
Mel Gibson - Fletcher Christian Master's Mate
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“You will be put away into a place where not even the crows can land their droppings on you!”
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“No man should be punished for love.”
John Lithgow - Winston Churchill

“ I don't really know much about Sam Pierce, oh Lord, but from what I hear, he'd be needing no introduction to you. Seeing how Sam was snatched from his loved ones' arms before they even had time to get a good grip on him, I'm counting on you to give him a better break up yonder.”
Walter Huston - The Sinkiller

“All I'm saying, Reggie, dear, is I have lived in the grip of vice and pleasure. It was wrong and I have paid. Perhaps the slate is wiped clean, perhaps it is not, who knows? At any rate, I am now ready to return to life.”
Rupert Everett - Oscar Wilde

“Every boy's special lady is his mother... Martha, Martha, Martha... Now, the mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The punishment for witches, what is that? That's right. Death by fire.”

Jesse Eisenberg - Lex Luthor

“A toast? Yeah. To high treason. That's what these men were committing when they signed the Declaration. Had we lost the war, they would have been hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered, and - Oh! Oh, my personal favorite - and had their entrails cut out and burned! So... Here's to the men who did what was considered wrong, in order to do what...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - Benjamin Franklin Gates

“You know you better not lie in here man, this is the big room! God does not look favorably on you. He has a tendancy to throw... lightning bolts at things... At liars!”
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn

“Okay, God, just... I want you to look down on these girlshere. They're like little flowers, and the rain you send 'em gutta be gentle and sweet. We come to you today, and we ask you to just... help 'em - help us grab this pageant by the balls and rip 'em off! I mean, if those judges don't like us, then screw 'em. These girlshere - they're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Zahn - Wayne