Quotes About Intelligence

I have always believed that anyone who must violate the law to achieve his purposes must lack either intelligence or imagination, probably both.

But you are a charming and beautiful dunces, madame. And," he continued in French, "a charming and beautiful woman can get away with murder. Can you imagine that any man here would prosecute you for assassinating our language?

By and large the aristocracy was intelligent enough. The problem was that its members had no need to live by their wits. Thus their wits atrophied. If they could not rely upon the sharper instincts and abundant common sense of their servants, the British upper classes would destroy themselves through sheer inertness.

Do you know, Lady Bredon, I do believe in time, with the proper guidance, you might become almost . . . intelligent," he said. She put a hand to her head. "Where are my smelling salts?

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

You're so pretty, Joe. It's really a shame that you're such a dumbass.

He stared at her. "How is it that you're cute, sexy as hell, and smarter than anyone I know?" She gave him a small smile. "It's a gift.

I can't actually tell if you're stunned by my brilliance or your own stupidity.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money.

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, Benedict said, his tone amused. It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.

I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody.

Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me.

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense.

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.

Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.