Quite a lot / quite a few / quite a bit?

Question

Recently I’ve got stumbled upon the question: What’s the difference between "quite a lot", "quite a few", and "quite a bit"? This is very confusing considering "a lot" and "a few" have almost opposite meanings. As far as I can see in dictionaries "quite a few" is always "many". Is that so, or am I missing some important difference?

Answer 1

None of these should be used in formal or college writing. That being said, they're all different degrees of amounts. In order of small to large would be: quite a few, quite a bit, quite a lot. I would prefer to eat quite a lot of chocolate candy than quite a few or quite a bit. Wouldn't you?

Answer 2

All these can be used interchangeably. They mean the same thing which is "many".