165 Movie Quotes about Punishment (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

Memorable quotes about punishment, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 Trouble is, there's not much you can do with a hanging. Now, if we had the electric chair in this state, that's something you can really sink your teeth into.

Walter Matthau as Walter Burns in The Front Page (1974)

52 If I come in here in the morning, and I tell you to do something, and when I come back at night, if that thing isn't done, you get one demerit. And you'll get one demerit every time you don't do something that I tell ya.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

53 Not in the modern educational system. They don't spank kids anymore. -They just send them to jail.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat; Patricia Knight as Jenny Marsh in Shockproof (1949)

54 May the hand of God strike him.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

55 Those who will not live by the law, shall die by the law!

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

56 Oh, sure, I can understand that, Judge, but come on, death for running a stop sign? -And for being a banker. That's the double death.

Chevy Chase as Chris Thorne; Dan Aykroyd as Alvin "J.P" Valkenheiser in Nothing but Trouble (1991)

57 Said anything yet? -Yeah. We're innocent. -Till the DA offers them a deal. -He already has: Regular or extra crispy. He was either referring to fried chicken or the electric chair.

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

58 Yeah, I see. You disobeyed an order. Now, get a toothbrush. You're gonna scrub the floor.

Jim Kelly as Black Belt Jones in Black Belt Jones (1974)

59 They punish you. -Pardon me? -The older you are, the harder they make it.

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider (1982)

60 Besides, even if you didn't do it, I'm gonna punish you because I'm big and you're small, and I'm right and you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)