"Wise guy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with my chin down when I happens to get a grin from this wise guy Marcus, in charge ...
— Torchy and Vee • Sewell Ford
... observed Miss Trimble, weaving her fingers into his luxuriant head-covering and pulling. "Wish y' luck! Ah! 'twas a wig. Gimme those spect'cles." She surveyed the results of her handiwork grimly. "Say, Clarence," she remarked, "y're a wise guy. Y' look handsomer with 'em on. Does any ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... that. I'm a pretty wise guy, if I do say it myself. I might be able to do as much for you as you're going to ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... westcut. Later on he 'eard the chap was going to use the money to pay off a morgidge and that he 'ad a sick wife. Wot did Dick do but 'unt him up again and put the money back, removing the receipt and substituting a fifty-dollar bill be'd filched from a wise guy in a bank, all wrapped up in a little note telling the chap to give it to 'is wife with the compliments of Old Nick. I've larfed myself to sleep wondering wot the feller thought when he found the note!" "I've never seen any one just like him. He's a ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... use the money to pay off a morgidge and that he 'ad a sick wife. Wot did Dick do but 'unt him up again and put the money back, removing the receipt and substituting a fifty-dollar bill be'd filched from a wise guy in a bank, all wrapped up in a little note telling the chap to give it to 'is wife with the compliments of Old Nick. I've larfed myself to sleep wondering wot the feller thought when he found the note!" ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon |
