Quick Witted Quotes:

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Society, Novelists, Bears, Quick Witted

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

topic: Mom, Sarcastic, Dad, Quick Witted

America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

- Edna Ferber

source: Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

topic: Ocean, Moving, America, Colorful, Resourceful

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 a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Coffee, Beer, Cities, Quick Witted

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 an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

- Plato

topic: Plato, Natural Talent, Training, Quick Witted

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

topic: Thinking, Hair, Years, Quick Witted, Ginger

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 reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.

- Peter Leithart

topic: Men, Vanity, Evil, Quick Witted

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 not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.

- Thucydides

topic: Taken, Winning, Men, Quick Witted

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 king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

- Sharon Shinn

topic: Kings, Stupid, Men, Quick Witted, Good Kings

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

topic: Self, Three, Instinct, Quick Witted, Three Sisters

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

- Helen McCloy

topic: Weed, Educational, Smart, Quick Witted, Educational Institutions