Remember the first time you watched “Clueless”? The wit, charm, and humor of Cher and her friends left an impact. Even today, Cher’s quotes can bring a smile to our faces.
Whether you’re a long-time fan or just discovering this classic, the lines from “Clueless” remain iconic. These quotes capture the essence of teenage life with humor and heart.
Iconic Clueless Quotes
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“I think, therefore I am.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.'”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
Funny Clueless Quotes
“To be or not to be, that is the… wait, what was the question again?”
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
“I’m not great at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
“Houston, we have a… something.”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Unless standing out means looking like a neon traffic cone.”
“The best way to predict the future is to… ask someone else?”
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
“Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.”
“I can resist everything except temptation. And pizza.”
“When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate. When in charge, ponder.”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. And trust me, I have a lot of experience.”
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you’re a mile away, and you have their shoes.”
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, write it. Or just wait for someone else to write it.”
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog that has everyone confused.”
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.”
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Probably because no one knows how to get there.”
“There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can’t.”
“I’m not running away from hard work; I’m too lazy to run.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
Romantic Clueless Quotes
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”
“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.”
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“I am yours, don’t give myself back to me.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“Where there is love, there is no question.”
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”
“True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Wise Clueless Quotes
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“I think, therefore I am.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Memorable Clueless Quotes
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
“I think, therefore I am.”
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by.”
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
“The heart wants what it wants.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“All I know is that I know nothing.”
“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
“we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Character Clueless Quotes
“I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
“I am not a smart man, but I know what love is.”
“You can’t handle the truth!”
“I am Groot.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“It’s a trap!”
“I am haunted by humans.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
“we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful. I sin, but I’m not the devil. I’m good, but I’m not an angel.”
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
“To infinity… and beyond!”
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Popular Clueless Quotes
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“And the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
“To infinity and beyond!”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
“It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination encircles the world.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“May you live every day of your life.”
The Last Word
Reflecting on these unforgettable “Clueless” quotes reminds us why the movie remains a beloved classic. Each line captures the humor and charm that have made it stand the test of time. Whether it’s Cher’s witty observations or Dionne’s sharp comebacks, these quotes never fail to bring a smile.
Revisiting these iconic lines doesn’t just entertain—it also offers a fun glimpse into ’90s culture. The quotes from “Clueless” have a special way of connecting with both old fans and new viewers. So next time you need a pick-me-up, let these memorable quotes add a touch of humor to your day.
