The phrase "apposite quote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a quote that is relevant or appropriate to the context being discussed.
Example: "In her speech, she included an apposite quote from Shakespeare that perfectly illustrated her point."
Alternatives: "relevant quote" or "pertinent quote".
I should end this week's entry with an apposite quote from Shakespeare.
Lanchester's book opens with a well-worn but apposite quote from the Aaron Sorkin film A Few Good Men.
The Jewish sage Hillel had an equally apposite quote: "If not now, when?" *This post has been updated to reflect the Wall Street Journal's report on the disbanding of the Strategic and Policy Forum.
I thought of this funny, if apposite, quote when I looked, from all angles inside and out, at the mock-up of the new London bus designed by Thomas Heatherwick and Wrightbus of Ballymena for Boris Johnson and Transport for London.
He mentions the record executive's early career as a failed pimp, and thereafter, keeps applying apposite quotes from Iceberg Slim's memoir, "Pimp: The Story of My Life" to describe Mr. Gordy's style of controlling his performers' destinies.
God is invoked with duplicitous piety, along with apposite quotes from the Koran, by Richard and his allies, but so is the demonizing language of the West, with Richard's adversaries denounced as terrorists and even members of "an axis of evil".
Once again, it seems apposite to quote MP Denis MacShane's open letter to Michael Martin in May, in which he called for the Speaker to resign, but smugly predicted the Commons "will survive this scandal as it survived earlier scandals..
Once again, it seems apposite to quote MP Denis MacShane's open letter to Michael Martin in May, in which he called for the Speaker to resign, but smugly predicted the Commons "will survive this scandal as it survived earlier scandals... The great historian Macaulay wrote that there was nothing 'so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality'.
Appropriately, in the exhibition, surrounding the Citroën, is a display of plastic things: a 1950s film of sprightly and spiteful French wrestlers, washing-powder ads ("Ah, cette blancheur... Persil!" says one woman dressed in grey to a smug woman in pristine white), a column of Guide Bleu tourist books - each with an apposite Barthesian quote.
He expertly traces connections and literary influences and summons the occasional apposite quotation.
The quote is so perfectly apposite, the dew from heaven calming the heat and smoke of the mine, the stars piercing the darkness of the pit, with the sense of working men building a glittering paradise.
