Cleverness quotes

“My guy in D.C. tells me that we are not dealing with a student here, we're dealing with the Professor. Any time the military has an operation that can't fail, they call this guy in to train the troops, OK? He's the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic...” (continue) (continue reading)

R. Lee Ermey - Stone

“All cowboys ain't dumb. Some of them got smarts real good, like me.”
John Travolta - Bud

“Don’t throw effort after foolishness.”
Kirk Douglas - Spur

“- 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

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
James Stewart - Elwood P. Dowd

“- Fresh: Mate in four.
- Chess Opponent: Fuck you. Ain't no mate in no four. Fuck you.
- Fresh: Would have been four if you were smart. Mate.”
Sean Nelson - Fresh

“This is 2014, women are smart now!”
James Franco - Dave Skylark

“You'll never be as fast as Storm, but you can be smarter than him.”

Chris Cooper - Smokey

“For a man who appears to be clever, you can certainly act like an idiot.”
Rhonda Fleming - Meta Carson

“Little beat big when little is smart. First with the head, then with the heart.”
Morgan Freeman - Geel Piet

“I like to use both sides of my brain.”

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“You think too much. That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.”
Anthony Quinn - Alexis Zorba

“Don't worry about Master Luke. I'm sure he'll be all right. He's quite clever, you know... for a human being.”

Anthony Daniels - C-3PO

“Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he'll drop like a stone.”
Patrick Swayze - Dalton

“Don't send a rabbit to kill a fox.”

Takeshi Kitano - Aramaki

“- Drew Halbert: That's not what I would've done. If someone tried to kill me I wouldn't have saved him. I would've bit his butt.
- Jesse: Maybe he's smarter than we are.
- Randolph Johnson: Or more human.”

Annie Corley - Drew Halbert
Jason James Richter - Jesse
August Schellenberg - Randolph Johnson

“You’re a fucking moron.”
Bob Balaban - Bernie Nayman

“Intellectuals have no taste.”
Sir Michael Caine - Fred Ballinger

“In every class, there's always one joker who thinks that he's smarter than me. In this class, that happens to be you. Isn't it, Mayonnaise?”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley

“- Lucy Miller: Are you an elf?
- Curtis: Why, no, of course not.
- Lucy Miller: Then why do you have pointy ears?
- Curtis: Because I didn't eat my green vegetables.”
Liliana Mumy - Lucy Miller
Spencer Breslin - Curtis

“- Will Graham: I know that I'm not smarter than you.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Then how did you catch me?
- Will Graham: You had disadvantages.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: What disadvantages?
- Will Graham: You're insane.”
William Petersen - Will Graham
Brian Cox - Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

“Smart men don't get married.”
Matthew Fox - Brooder

“- Rey: What are you going to do?
- Han Solo: Same thing I always do. Talk my way out of it.”
Daisy Ridley - Rey
Harrison Ford - Han Solo

“A lot of times, the only thing that kept me out of a satin box was I could size up the other guy half a second quicker than he could me.”
Christopher Walken - Charlie Barret

“How clever of you, Miss Bingley, to know something of which you are ignorant.”

Greer Garson - Elizabeth Bennet