Apt

Famous quotes containing the word apt:

    It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she “allures” us to our death.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

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

    We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)