Cleverness quotes

“Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts.”
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks

“- Swell: Kenny, why don't you save your last three brain cells, you might need them.
- Kenny: I won't!”
Christina Applegate - Swell
Keith Coogan - Kenny

“They are sublimely clever. And they are intelligent as well. My indictments to that race are stronger and heavier because they are real, not uneducated ideology. They are arrogant and self-obsessed and calculating and reject the Christ and I will not have them pollute German blood!”

Colin Firth - Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart

“- Carl Roebuck: Sixty years old and still getting crushes on other men's wives. I would hope by the time I'm your age, I'm a little smarter than that.
- Sully: Can't hurt to hope. You sure are off to a slow start.”
Bruce Willis - Carl Roebuck
Paul Newman - Sully

“- Ben Avery: Mike? Happy Birthday, hooligan!
- Michael Hillyard: That's right, my day all day.
- Ben Avery: You know who else's birthday it is? I read it in the San Francisco Chronicle. Julius Ceasar!
- Michael Hillyard: Julius Caesar! How the hell do they know?
- Ben Avery: Because they are fiendishly clever, man!”
Michael O'Hare - Ben Avery
Stephen Collins - Michael Hillyard

“You just stay here with the pork. They're smarter than you anyway. You might learn something.”
Casey Siemaszko - Charles 'Charley' Bowdre

“- Simon Wilder: When it comes to relationships, everyone's a used car salesman.
- Montgomery 'Monty' Kessler: Is that your philosophy? Don't trust anyone.
- Simon Wilder: No, you've got to trust people. But you can't believe in the warranty.”
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder
Brendan Fraser - Montgomery 'Monty' Kessler

“- Robin Monroe: Aren't you one of those guys?
- Quinn Harris: What guys?
- Robin Monroe: Those guys, you know, those guys with skills.
- Quinn Harris: Skills?
- Robin Monroe: Yeah. You send them into the wilderness with a pocket knife and a Q-tip and they build you a shopping mall.”
Anne Heche - Robin Monroe
Harrison Ford - Quinn Harris

“The trouble with kids is they always figure they're smarter than their parents.”
William Demarest - Constable Edmund Kockenlocker

“- Joey Coyle: Why is Ben smiling?
- Vincente Goldoni: He was smart enough not to be President.”

John Cusack - Joey Coyle
Maury Chaykin - Vincente Goldoni