Lateness Quotes

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.

Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

I hate it when people are late, and I hate being late.

Early is on time and on time is late.

There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Sooner or later usually means too late

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

I don’t like people who are late.

You can not define being exactly on time.

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

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

While being late in L.A. is common because of traffic, more than 20 minutes is too much.

I can never be on time anywhere.

I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.

When a government faces an evil that might be avoided, the usual pattern is to first debate whether or not the evil is real or imagined; then determine how evil it really is; then is it an appropriate function of government to avoid it? Then what are the alternative ways to avoid it? Then what are the costs to avoid it? And finally, is the benefit of avoiding the evil worth the cost? In those cases where it is, it is by this time too late to avoid the evil and discussions shift to ameliorating the evil.