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Quotes About Quick-witted

I like that about the English people. They are sharp.
~ Marco van Basten
I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
~ Tom Stoppard
Jane Lynch is incredibly quick-witted, very intelligent, and extremely humorous. Also, on top of that all, just a very wonderful, warm, kind person. She's definitely someone to look up to.
~ Jayma Mays
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
Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.
~ Jesse Lingard
Lady Astor: Sir, if you were my husband I would put arsenic in your tea! Churchill: If I were your husband I would drink it!
~ Winston Churchill
I don't think it's necessary to do stand-up to be a presenter, but I like it, because it keeps me sharp, especially when something like 'Take Me Out' is 80% is ad-libbed, so that works for me.
~ Paddy McGuinness
quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.
~ Anthony Doerr
Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
~ Lauren Willig
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
~ Drew Barrymore
I can pretty much make a joke out of any situation, I'm quick on my feet and I love to laugh. I am the biggest girly girl. I love to get dressed up, go shopping, and getting my nails done.
~ Lizzie Velasquez
Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion or a debate with anyone.
~ Mark Hunt
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
Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.
~ Graham Greene
Sebastian Holt-Carey: future sixth Viscount Holt-Carey. The lord of the manor. Quick-witted and bighearted, with a taste for glam and goth and boys who liked glam and goth.
~ Maureen Johnson
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
~ David Tennant
Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.
~ Meryl Streep
Bridget was risking a lot to marry him. She was too quick-witted not to know that. Cathal was not only flattered by that; he felt hopeful. For Bridget to do this had to mean that she cared for him, felt more than lust for him. There was a good chance that the seed of affection had already taken root in her heart. Cathal prayed he had the skill to nurture it well and make it grow. Bridget
~ Hannah Howell
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
Steve Punt and I have always tried to go so fast that its physically impossible to heckle.
~ Hugh Dennis
Sassy girl's got an answer for everything
~ Carolyn Brown
He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.
~ Parul Wadhwa
I spot detail quickly.
~ Mickey Drexler
The Irish, being underdogs, necessarily knew more than their rulers. Theirs was the perennial problem of quickwitted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators
~ James Joyce