It was a particularly apt quotation.

There are many other such apt or perverted quotations in the essay.

Mr. Gamble entered, refreshed and ready with a few apt quotations.

Never shall I forget the furious passion into which this too apt quotation threw my unprincipled applicant.

It was an apt quotation for a young man shortly to embark upon a lifetime of work in Peru.

"Very apt quotation, sir, though there have never been any exact details of Martlow's death."

She was one of America's chief representatives of the discursive essay, displaying wide reading and apt quotation.

He possessed a wide and extraordinarily retentive memory which enabled him to produce the apt quotation for any occasion.

But Jimmy remembered an apt quotation about faint hearts and fair ladies.

Then apt and entertaining quotations are deployed.