Smart Aleck Quotes

• Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

  James Patterson

  Smart, Humor, Two

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• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Smart, School, Middle

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• When it comes to understanding the nuts and bolts of the details of any policy, the elites haven't the slightest idea. I'm sure you've done this, too. In every gun control debate, somebody, some smart aleck will pop up and say the truth. The guns not killing anybody. The person pulling the trigger is. And then somebody will say, you know if you people were really serious, you'd ban bullets, a gun's worthless without bullets. And here we are. Here we are. Isn't it much easier to ban the production, the manufacture, and the sale of bullets than guns?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Gun, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

  Ben Stein

  Dad, Father, Smart

  "Ben Stein Wants You To Sleep". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.” I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking?

  James Patterson

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  James Patterson (2011). “Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Smart, People

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• Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects." "Seven sacred sects," I repeated. "Say that three times fast." "How about I spank you instead?" asked Patrick in a benign tone that belied the flare of irritation in his gaze. "Only if you tie me to a bed and use a paddle." His silver eyes went molten. Uh-oh. Me and my big smart-aleck mouth. "I… uh, sorry. I didn't mean that. I saw Secretary a few too many times. I'm impressionable.

  Michele Bardsley

  Sorry, Smart, Mean

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.68, Penguin

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• I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Smart, Way

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.363, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

  Rick Bragg

  Smart, Home, Thinking

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.15, Vintage

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• [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Smart, Cocky, Eye

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