Miss Honey Movie Quotes & Lines – 8 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Feb 11, 2026

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

1 A bright child? -Yes. She can multiply large sums in her head. -So can a calculator.

Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz) in Matilda (1996)

2 If you think watching some rotten TV show is more important than your daughter, then maybe you shouldn't be a parent. Now, why don't you turn that darn thing off and listen to me.

Embeth Davidtz in Matilda (1996)

3 Don't speak unless you're spoken to. Don't laugh. Don't smile. Don't even breathe loudly. -Don't breathe at all.

Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz), Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris) in Matilda (1996)

4 It's wonderful you feel so powerful. Many people don't feel powerful at all.

Embeth Davidtz in Matilda (1996)

5 Oh, I believe that you should believe in whatever power you think you have inside of you. Believe it with all your heart.

Embeth Davidtz in Matilda (1996)

6 I thought grownups weren't afraid of anything. -Quite the contrary. All grownups get scared, just like children.

Embeth Davidtz in Matilda (1996)

7 You were born into a family that doesn't always appreciate you, but one day, things are gonna be very different.

Embeth Davidtz in Matilda (1996)

8 I want to stay with Miss Honey. -Miss Honey doesn't want you. Why would she want some snotty, disobedient kid? -Because she's a spectacularly wonderful child, and I love her.

Zinnia Wormwood (Rhea Perlman), Miss Honey (Embeth Davidtz) in Matilda (1996)