Tardiness Quotes:

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

- Elizabeth Chase Allen

source: Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Until Death”

topic: Giving, Stones, Tardiness, Recompense

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

- Manuel Puig

topic: Hygiene, Literature, Tardiness

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

topic: Philosophical, Opportunity, Tardiness, Punctual

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1997). “King Lear: Third Series”, p.174, A&C Black

topic: Tardiness, Diffidence

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

topic: Love, Long, Tardiness, Long Love, Lasting Love

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Time, Too Late, Punctual, Promptness

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

- E. V. Lucas

source: 365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277

topic: Procrastination, People, Waiting, Tardiness

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Opportunity, Sound, Events, Tinder, Tardiness

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

- Sigourney Weaver

topic: Tardiness

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

- William Whipple

topic: Business, Important, Nine, Tardiness

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Fire, Age, Desire, Tardiness, Frigidity

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Ideas, Space, Flying, Personal Space, Bombay

When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love on like the same day - even Karen the douche bag falls in love! Even retarded people in your neighborhood are getting married on their front lawn as you drive by, “What? The 'tards just got married on their lawn. That's great! I have nobody, and the 'tards just committed to each other for a lifetime of 'tardiness”.

- Dane Cook

source: "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.

topic: Falling In Love, People, Bags, Douche Bag, Tardiness