Quotes About Belated

#1. Bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate ... happens to me on a daily basis!

Edith Wharton

#2. At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

Leon Askin

#3. Behavior is nothing more than a belated announcement of a previously accepted thought as one's own.

Gerald R. Clark

#4. A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Irvin S. Cobb

#5. An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Irvin S. Cobb

#6. When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Neo-Darwinian theory has trouble accounting for the strange, sudden, and belated appearance of man, the conscious self which speaks, lies, deceives itself, and also tells the truth.

Walker Percy

#8. The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

James Buchan

#9. He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

Edith Wharton

#10. While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Raul Grijalva

#11. The middle classes, grown prosperous by the belated but staggering development of the industrial revolution and dazzled by the success of Bismarck's policy of force and war, had traded for material gain any aspirations for political freedom they may have had.

William L. Shirer

#12. The awareness of happiness comes after, in memory, with the belated appreciation of the moment.

Anne Rice

#13. Much of her outrage derived from a belated recognition that she was as human as anyone else.

Katherine Boo

#14. Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile.
"Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me?
We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings.
Anyone get you a gin yet?

Jeaniene Frost

#15. If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation.

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. Belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

Vera Brittain

#17. Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

Harold Brodkey

#18. Artemus Ward used that trick a good deal; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with innocent surprise, as if wondering what they had found to laugh at. Dan Setchell used it before

Mark Twain

#19. When he visited his and Adam's old bedroom, the thread of disapproval he'd felt during his proposal of a memorial became a rope, as he saw the savage absence not only of Adam but of himself. So when he shut the door on his family and stepped out into the rain it was an already belated act.

Toni Morrison

#20. I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

Adolf Hitler

#21. When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#22. The sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists. It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against the Aristotelian liberality.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face white from a nights' carouse.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

John Milton

#25. Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

H.L. Mencken

#26. In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to a happy conclusion a long and worthy life without the sad necessity of having to die.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#27. If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!

Michael Chabon

#28. The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

Brock Chisholm

#29. Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool ...

Paul Gauguin

#30. And I feel it happen
silent and study as a feather, a piece of my soul becomes his.

Kristen Simmons

#31. Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#32. At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

Dawn Angelique

#33. She chuckles again. "Because sane plans never work, girl," she says. "Only the mad ones do.

Sabaa Tahir

#34. The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

William Shakespeare

#35. I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

Priyanka Chopra

#36. I'm breathing out of my mouth and thinking things I have only seen on Netflix in the foreign-movie section.

Tara Brown

#37. You think to slide back, settle for something that made you run away because you think it's safe, because it's familiar, because your scare of taking a GAMBLE on me, I'm warning you now, Duchess, I'm not gonna allow that.

Kristen Ashley

#38. Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.

Jean Bethke Elshtain

#39. For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

William Shakespeare