Agatha Trunchbull: You wanted cake, you got cake! Now EAT IT.
Harry Wormwood: A book? What do you want a book for?
Matilda: To read.
Harry Wormwood: To read? Why would you want to read when you got the television 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.
Agatha Trunchbull: Useless, flamin' car! Wormwood! Sell me a lemon? You're heading for the chokey, young lady.
Matilda: Chokey?
Agatha Trunchbull: Teach you a lesson.
Matilda: What lesson?
Agatha Trunchbull: You and your father think you can make a fool out of me.
Matilda: My father?
Agatha Trunchbull: The guy with the stupid haircut.
Matilda: I'm nothing like my father.
Agatha Trunchbull: You're the spitting image. The apple never rots far from the tree.
Written by Trunchbull on the blackboard: If you are having fun, you are not learning.
Agatha Trunchbull: I like a joke as much as the next fat person.
Million $ Sticky Host: For those idiots out there who don't know how to play, here's how it goes. For each correct answer, they'll move one step closer to our Cube of Cash. Once in our Cube of Cash, any money that sticks to your gooey body, you get to take home.
Answer: The "real world" answer is that it's a movie, and without Trunchbull, there's no villain at the school for Matilda to battle. Within the context of the film, everyone, including the staff, is afraid of her and fear if they speak up, she'll retaliate.