Cleverness quotes

“She's a clever little girl and she's always a hop, skip, and a jump ahead.”

Kirk Douglas - Jeff Bailey

“Basil's smarter than you! He's going to put you in jail. He's not afraid of a big, old, ugly, rat like youǃ”

Susanne Pollatschek - Olivia Flaversham

“How do you get to two men that can't be gotten to? You get them to come to you.”
Josh Hartnett - Slevin Kelevra

“The fool looks at a finger that points at the sky.”
Jerry Lucas - The Sacré-Coeur Boy

“- Adam: People who are tragically ambitious and smart go to New York and people who are just tragically smart come here.
- Rebecca: Oh. What about people who are just tragically ambitious?
- Adam: They go to LA.”
Josh Charles - Adam
Penelope Ann Miller - Rebecca

“Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart.”
J.E. Freeman - Eddie Dane

“Fuckin' office job! Who the fuck wants a job like that? You fuckin' sit at a little desk, you got your little phone, you got your little fuckin' piece of paper, your little pen, you write shit down, blah blah blah. Fuck, a monkey could do that shit man!”
Charlize Theron - Aileen

- David “Gordo” Gordon: Wow, evil and smart.
- Kate Sanders: Embrace it. Fear it.
Adam Lamberg - David “Gordo” Gordon
Ashlie Brillault - Kate Sanders

“I've got to hand it to the Chinese, they're awfully ingenious.”

Tom Fisher - Artie Doyle

“- Lars Smuntz: I don't believe it. He snapped the trap, ate the olive and left the pit just to mock us!
- Ernie Smuntz: I think you're giving him a little too much credit. Mice don't mock. They don't have a sense of humor or irony.”
Lee Evans - Lars Smuntz
Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“You're the coolest fucking guy at Shenaniganz. That's like being the smartest kid with down syndrome!”
John Francis Daley - Mitch

“- Lonnie Ritter: Kids today are amazing. I played winter ball down in Venezuela, they had kids half his age, every one of them speaking Spanish. That's a hard language.
- Lou Collins: They speak Spanish in Venezuela.
- Lonnie Ritter: I know! That's my point!”
Joseph Latimore - Lonnie Ritter
Timothy Busfield - Lou Collins

“- Tom Fox: He doesn't have a passport.
- Carl Hanratty: For the last six months, he's gone to Harvard and Berkeley. I'm betting he can get a passport.”
Frank John Hughes - Tom Fox
Tom Hanks - Carl Hanratty

“You started thinking you were smart, when all you were was lucky.”
Scott Glenn - David Eckhart

“- Xander Cage: What is this place?
- Agent Augustus Gibbons: Looks like a diner.
- Xander Cage: That's clever. You know, you almost had me going there for a while. Then I started noticing things. You got a stockbroker over here, all dressed up reading the Financial Times on a Sunday morning when the market's closed.”
Vin Diesel - Xander Cage
Samuel L. Jackson - Agent Augustus Gibbons

“- Jay: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
- Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- James Bond: You know, you're cleverer than you look.
- Q: Still, better than looking cleverer than you are.”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
John Marwood Cleese - Q

“- Basil of Baker Street: Ratigan's proved he's more clever than I. He never would have walked into such an obvious trap.
- Dr. David Q. Dawson: Pull yourself together. You can stop that villain.”

Barrie Ingham - Basil of Baker Street
Val Bettin - Dr. David Q. Dawson

“- Sassy: It's like I said all along, poopsie: cats rule and dogs drool.
- Chance: Get a life. Get nine of them.
- Sassy: But it's true. Cats are smarter than dogs, and more attractive... and we don't drink from the toilet!”
Sally Field - Sassy
Michael J. Fox - Chance

“Never underestimate your opponent. Let's say he has mastered a way to empty a mousetrap without getting caught. If he snaps one of these babies, a chain reaction will start snapping them all. He'll panic, and the law of averages says one of them has to nab him.”

Nathan Lane - Ernie Smuntz

“- Boris: Good work, Balto. You took on the biggest, meanest tree in whole forest, and you won.
- Balto: I'm marking the trail.
- Luk: He's marking our trail. That's very clever.
- Boris: And here I was leaving bread crumbs.”
Bob Hoskins - Boris
Kevin Bacon - Balto
Phil Collins - Luk

“- Bud White: I'm not smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring in to scare the other guy shitless.
- Lynn Bracken: You're wrong. You found Patchett, you found me. You're smart enough.”

Russell Crowe - Bud White
Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken

“- Lucy Miller: Are you Santa Claus? Because you have a reindeer.
- Scott Calvin: Lots of people have reindeer.
- Lucy Miller: Name five.”
Liliana Mumy - Lucy Miller
Tim Allen - Scott Calvin

“I got shoes older than you kid, and tougher, too.”
John Malkovich - Teddy Deserve

“I may not be street wise and all that, but at least I’m not that dumb!”
Jennifer Lopez - Selena Quintanilla