Apt Quotes

410 quotes by 323 authors

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. — Abraham Lincoln
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet,… — John Waters
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and… — Daniel Defoe
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old… — Susanna Clarke
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. — Elizabeth Gaskell
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow… — Vincent Price
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,… — Arnold Bennett
In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least… — John Gresham Machen
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the… — Robertson Davies
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. — Stephen King
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and imagesâ€¦ It is not a conscious recording of… — William Carlos Williams
Youâ€™re just the romantic age,â€ she continued- â€œfifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those… — Frederick Buechner
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are… — Alain de Botton
If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In… — Neal Shusterman
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age… — George Eliot
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you? — Rachel Cohn
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in… — W.N.P. Barbellion
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. — James F. Cooper

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