Quotes About Lateness

#1. Valet had reminded him several times of the lateness of the hour, he got up, and going into the next room, placed the book on the little Florentine table that always stood

Oscar Wilde

#2. The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ...

Rose Macaulay

#3. I find lateness exceptionally rude; it's so disrespectful, implying unambiguously that you consider yourself and your own time to be so much more valuable than the other person's.

Gail Honeyman

#4. William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Every lateness give us a staggering statistics in negative economic effect

Sunday Adelaja

#6. One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

George Saintsbury

#7. The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... Mystery at Geneva

Rose Macaulay

#8. And despite the lateness of the hour rushed to her set of encyclopaedias.

Dinah Lampitt

#9. Fifty points from Gryffindor for lateness, I think," said Snape. "And, let me see, another twenty for your Muggle attire. You know, I don't believe any House has ever been in negative figures this early in the term: We haven't even started pudding. You might have set a record, Potter.

J.K. Rowling

#10. When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

George Iles

#11. Lateness is a trait of disrespect and it gives the person waiting for you time to think about your other shortcomings.

Carian Cole

#12. It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

John Updike

#13. You must however pay attention to the fact that we don't only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. There is no lateness in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

Sendhil Mullainathan

#17. That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#18. I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

LaToya Jackson

#19. Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Jan Karon

#20. If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late ...

Sergei Lukyanenko

#21. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.

Chris Hedges

#22. Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Arlene Ang

#23. Better late than ever.

American Proverb.

#24. The sun flashed off the wet blades, splinters of light, then the oars dipped, were tugged, and the beast-headed boats surged, and I stared entranced.

Bernard Cornwell

#25. When it is late, everyone cares!

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

Anthony Liccione

#27. Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price

Michael Bassey Johnson

#28. Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.

Bell Hooks

#29. It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.

Leighton Meester

#30. Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities.

Kenan Malik

#32. Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

Thrity Umrigar

#33. Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Mason Cooley