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)

“Who often, but without success, have prayed
For apt Alliteration’s artful aid.”
—Charles Churchill (1731–1764)

“Women of fashion and character—I do not mean absolutely unblemished—are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)