Apt

Famous quotes containing the word apt:

“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“I haven’t much opinion of words.... They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)

“But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)