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

“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

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

“- 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

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

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

“ 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

“- D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think they should deserve to die?
- Carl Lee Hailey: Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!”

Kevin Spacey - D.A. Rufus Buckley
Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angka are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silentsurvive.”
Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran

“My father would've kicked the living crap out of me if I ended up where you are now, Junior.”

Josh Brolin - George H. W. Bush

“Do not think that all sins go unpaid in this life, Montrose.”
Andrew Keir - Argyll

“Like cutting Tolstoy's beard so he wouldn't write any revolutionarynovels.”

Lionel Barrymore On Greta Garbo, Louis Burt Mayer

“- Larry: What's that for?
- Curly: We didn't do nothing!
- Moe: That's in case you do when I'm not around.”

Larry Fine - Larry
Curly Howard - Curly
Moe Howard - Moe

“In my country, for violating sacred beast you get beaten to death with bamboo stick.”
Zahf Paroo - Asian Man

“- Tillaver : How does a week in the hole sound?
- The Djinn: A week, is that the best you got? I was once in a hole for 3000 years, this should be a breeze.”

Tommy "Tiny" Lister - Tillaver
Andrew Divoff - The Djinn

“You got one hysterical girl with a very vivid imagination and all that girl needs is a good smack on the butt and her mommy and daddy won't do it, I'll be happy to volunteer.”

Ronald Francis Perlman - Captain Soames

“- Connor: Destroy all that which is evil.
- Murphy: So that which is good may flourish.”
Sean Patrick Flanery - Connor MacManus
Norman Reedus - Murphy MacManus

“- Connor: The rule of thumb here is...
- Rosengurtie: Wait, rule of thumb? In the early 1900s it was legal for men to beat their wives, as long as they used a stick no wider than their thumb.
- Connor: Can't do much damage with that then, can we? Perhaps it should have been a rule of wrist?”

Sean Patrick Flanery - Connor MacManus
Dot-Marie Jones - Rosengurtle Baumgartener

“Mommy, you shouldn't have said that. It's naughty to say bad things about old people. Santa Claus will punish you!”
Jonathan Best - Billy at 5