Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men — Charles Darwin
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not… — E. Nesbit
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world… — Jane Austen
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,… — George Eliot
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is… — Marcus Aurelius
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the… — P.G. Wodehouse
I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and… — Audre Lorde
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. — Margaret Mitchell
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing… — Gail Carriger
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. — Carolyn Keene
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best. — Gabriela Mistral

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