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

topic: Wise, Party, Home, Interesting Stories, Wise Guy

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

- Robert Cormier

topic: Wise, People, Guy, Wise Guy

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

- Grenville Kleiser

topic: Wise, Guy, Way, Wise Guy

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

topic: Wise, Mean, Guy, Target Market, Wise Guy

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

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Wise, Guy, Littles, Wise Guy

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

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

topic: Wise, Blow, Wind, Wise Guy

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

- Galen Starr Ross

topic: Wise, Men, Differences, Wise Guy

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

- Jim Butcher

topic: Wise, Lying, Guy, Wise Guy, Tough Lady

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

- Don Rickles

topic: Wise, Vegas, Guy, Wise Guy

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

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

topic: Wise, Heart, Cynical, Pushovers, Wise Guy

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

- Charles Grodin

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

topic: Wise, Mean, Guy, Wise Guy

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

- Buddhadasa

topic: Wise, Guy, Heaven, Wise Guy

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

source: Source: tv.avclub.com

topic: Wise, Rip, Fighting, Wise Guy

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

topic: Wise, Growing Up, Heart, Moxie, Long Island

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

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

topic: Wise, Loyalty, Real, Wise Guy

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

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

topic: Wise, Smart, Men, Catch 22 Important, Wise Guy

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

- Michael Steinhardt

topic: Wise, Hero, Long, Wise Guy