Cleverness quotes

“- 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

“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

“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 - Mr. Wormwood

“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

“- Lula Fortune: That Johnnie is one clever detective. You know how clever?
- Sailor Ripley: How clever?
- Lula Fortune: He told me once he could find an honest man in Washington.”
Laura Dern - Lula Fortune
Nicolas Cage - Sailor Ripley

“Exactly like your father: a big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!”

Ethel Merman - Mrs. Marcus

“- Charles Morse: Why is the rabbit unafraid?
- Styles: Because he's smarter than the panther.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Charles Morse
L.Q. Jones - Styles

Cats are smarter than dogs, huh? Right. She doesn't even know the meaning of the word "Stay".

Michael J. Fox - Chance

“Fool me once, shame on you. But teach a man to fool me and I’ll be fooled for the rest of my life.”
Will Arnett - BoJack Horseman

“Cersei Lannister-You’re a clever man, but you’re not half as clever as you think you are.
Tyrion Lannister-Still makes me more clever than you.”
Peter Dinklage - Tyrion Lannister
Lena Headey - Cersei Lannister

“- 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