Quick Witted Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
— Tim Heidecker
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed…
— Edna Ferber
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In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would…
— Thucydides
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had…
— Plato
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Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be…
— Peter Leithart
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Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
— Ed Sheeran
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No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
— Georgette Heyer
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The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have…
— Bill Bryson
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So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good…
— Sharon Shinn
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Internet offers a quick-witted tool to help bring peoples together. Cyber Apartheid, by its turn, a dull-witted firewall to keep them apart.
— Jean-Paul Malfatti
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I'm not so quick-witted. I wish I was. We're pretty different and I kind of live through her in a way, always having a witty…
— Leisha Hailey
Who Wrote These Quick Witted Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Quick Witted Quotes as follows: