Apt Quotes

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

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.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.