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Happiness Quote by Sarah Ferguson

"Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her"

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There is a strategic tenderness in calling Diana “one of the quickest wits I knew.” Sarah Ferguson isn’t praising glamour, charity, or tragedy-the usual gravitational pull around Princess Diana. She’s rescuing her from the museum display and placing her back in the messy, private space where personalities actually live. “Quickest wits” signals speed, intelligence, and a kind of social agility: the ability to read a room, puncture pretension, and survive with humor. It’s also a subtle rebuttal to the long-running tabloid caricature of Diana as only fragile or emotionally undone. Wit implies agency.

The second clause does even more work. “Nobody made me laugh like her” shifts the focus from Diana’s public myth to Ferguson’s embodied memory: the involuntary, intimate reaction of laughter. That’s a claim you can’t easily fact-check, which is precisely why it lands as authentic. It’s less a tribute than a relationship proof-a way of saying: I knew her offstage.

Context matters because Ferguson and Diana were famously close, then publicly complicated, both cast in different ways as royal-adjacent women scrutinized for their bodies, marriages, and perceived transgressions. This line reads like an attempt to reclaim a simpler truth inside that noise: whatever else happened, there was a shared comedic frequency. The subtext is loyalty with a protective edge. By memorializing Diana as funny, Ferguson asserts that the lost figure was not just an icon to be mourned, but a person who could weaponize joy-and give it freely.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ferguson, Sarah. (2026, January 16). Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/diana-was-one-of-the-quickest-wits-i-knew-nobody-120683/

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Ferguson, Sarah. "Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/diana-was-one-of-the-quickest-wits-i-knew-nobody-120683/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/diana-was-one-of-the-quickest-wits-i-knew-nobody-120683/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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