Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. — William Dampier
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life… — P.G. Wodehouse
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else. — Concha Buika
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. — Ralph Ellison
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote… — Susanne Katherina Langer
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. — Gelett Burgess
Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they are… — Sue Thoele
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into… — Lajos Kossuth
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. — George Eliot
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. — Bret Harte
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… — Joseph Addison
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful… — William Penn
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take… — William Cowper
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. — Joseph Hall
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the… — Joshua Reynolds
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be… — Jane Porter
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code… — Richard M. Weaver
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its… — Richard Diebenkorn

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