Wise Guy Quotes

• Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

  Joan Crawford

  Wise, Party, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

  Robert Cormier

  Wise, People, Guy

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• Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Wise, Guy, Way

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• Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

  Calvin Ayre

  Wise, Mean, Guy

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• We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

  William Arthur Ward

  Wise, Guy, Littles

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• Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

  Amy Tan

  Wise, Blow, Wind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

  Galen Starr Ross

  Wise, Men, Differences

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• Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

  Jim Butcher

  Wise, Lying, Guy

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.46, Penguin

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• When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

  Don Rickles

  Wise, Vegas, Guy

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• I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

  Roger Ebert

  Wise, Heart, Cynical

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.133, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

  Charles Grodin

  Wise, Mean, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

  Buddhadasa

  Wise, Guy, Heaven

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• Rip Torn thought I was being a wise guy, and one afternoon he got pretty angry with me after telling me to do something and he thought I was pretending like I didn't know what he meant.But he was very frustrated. He was very frustrated as a director in trying to get his little theater group going. It was called The Sanctuary Theater Workshop, I think, and he wanted to do these classical plays by people like August Strindberg, and he was fighting hard to get his show up and be good and be professional.

  John Heard

  Wise, Rip, Fighting

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

  Steve Buscemi

  Wise, Growing Up, Heart

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• I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wise, Loyalty, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.46, Penguin Group

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• Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Smart, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Wise, Hero, Long

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