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Quotes About Haste

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.
~ Rex Stout
All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.
~ Richard Baxter
Slow" works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.
~ Richard Russo
Can't you go faster?" Ashley pleaded. "Any faster, and we'll be the ones needing a rescue.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Como se suele decir: una mentira da media vuelta al mundo mientras la verdad aún se está calzando
~ Ken Follett
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
~ Will Durant
Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
~ William Shakespeare
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
~ William Shakespeare
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
~ William Shakespeare
It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;Too like the lightning, which doth cease to beEre one can say it lightens.
~ William Shakespeare
Stand not upon the order of your going,But go at once.
~ William Shakespeare
Celerity is never more admir'dThan by the negligent.
~ William Shakespeare
Now spurs the lated traveler apaceTo gain the timely inn.
~ William Shakespeare
O true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick.
~ William Shakespeare
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.
~ William Shakespeare
This sweaty hasteDoth make the night joint-laborer with the day.
~ William Shakespeare
Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.
~ William Shakespeare
Make haste; the better foot before.
~ William Shakespeare
This is the very false gallop of verses.
~ William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.
~ William Shakespeare
But though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. JOHN WESLEY
~ William Thrasher
Time has passed like a courier with urgent news.But that's just our simile.The character's invented, his haste is make-believe,his news inhuman.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
miles an hour.
~ David Walliams
If you want to frisk me, I'll let you, but you got to hurry because there's a lot of me and we don't got much time. And don't be alarmed if I get aroused.
~ David Wong