Quotes About Intelligence

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. dup

I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

An animal more like the gods than these, more intellectually capable and able to control the other beasts, had not as yet appeared: now man was born, either

though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about.

He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

Heath was still Heath--cute, but not the brightest Crayola in the pack.

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite.

Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover. The sort of girl who reduces you to pulp with sixteen sets of tennis and a few rounds of golf and then comes down to dinner as fresh as a daisy, expecting you to take an intelligent interest in Freud.

Liz, said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!

Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?' 'I couldn't say, sir.

It's brain, I said; pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat a lot of fish, Jeeves? No, sir. Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born that way there's no use worrying.

I don't mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot.

I have always had a suspicion that Aunt Dahlia, while invariably matey and bonhomous and seeming to take pleasure in my society, has a lower opinion of my intelligence than I quite like. Too often it is her practice to address me as 'fathead', and if I put forward any little thought or idea or fancy in her hearing it is apt to be greeted with the affectionate but jarring guffaw.

I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know; but give me five minutes to talk the thing over with Jeeves, and I'm game to advise any one about anything.

The ideal girl . . . would be kind. That was because she would also be extremely intelligent, and, being extremely intelligent, would have need of kindness to enable her to bear with a not very intelligent man like himself.

They're soul mates. She has about as much brain as a retarded billiards ball, and he approximately the same.

anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit.

I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know;

But then everybody says that, though you have a brain like a peahen, you're the soul of kindness and generosity.' Well, I was handicapped here by the fact that, never having met a peahen, I was unable to estimate the quality of these fowls' intelligence, but she had spoken as if they were a bit short of the grey matter, and I was about the ask her who the hell she meant by 'everybody', when she resumed.