Harry Wormwood Movie Quotes & Lines – 23 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Feb 11, 2026

Find and rate the best quotes by Harry Wormwood, selected from famous or less known movies, as rated by our community, featuring short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 A book? What do you want a book for? -To read. -To read? Why would you wanna read when you got the TV set sitting right in front of you? There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

2 I say appearance is nine-tenths of the law. People don't buy a car, they buy me. Which is why I personally take such pride in my appearance: well-oiled hair, clean shaved, snappy suit.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

3 College! I didn't go to college. I don't know anybody who did. Bunch of hippies and cesspool salesmen.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

4 Dearest pie, how old is Matilda? -Four. -I'm six and a half, Mommy. -Five, then. -I was six in August. -You're a liar.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

5 Son, one day you're gonna have to earn your own living. It's time you learned the family business. Sit down. Write this down.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

6 We really should weld these bumpers on, but that takes time, equipment, money. So we use Super Super Glue instead.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

7 Daddy, that's cheating. -Of course it's cheating. Nobody ever got rich being honest.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

8 Listen, you little wiseacre. I'm smart, you're dumb. I'm big, you're little. I'm right, you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it.

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

9 I will not be the figure of ridicule! I want respect, and I want it now!

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)

10 From now on, this family does exactly what I say when, exactly when, I say it!

Danny DeVito in Matilda (1996)