Quotes About Lateness

She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

People in Philly are always late.

We were late among the living.

I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

My wife drives the wrong way on a one way street. The cop pulled her over and asked, "Where are you going?" My wife said, "I must be late, everyone is all coming back!"

I looked at the clock on the microwave. I was late for work. I find it difficult to move at that hour. Like there are ankle weights on my soul.

You're late,' she announced. Her eyes gleamed. 'Sorry, Sunshine,' Leo said. 'Traffic was murder.' 'You are covered with soot,' she noted. 'And you managed to ruin the clothes I made for you, which were impossible to ruin.' 'Well, you know.' Leo shrugged. Somebody had released a hundred pachinko balls in his chest. 'I'm all about doing the impossible.

Ere we had reach'd the wish'd-for place, night fell:   We were too late at least by one dark hour

One thing led to another, and we were a trifle late going down for dinner.

they were always, she was always, gloriously, just a little late, it made everything worth hurrying for)

You're late." Kat said as soon as Hale put the phone to his ear. She wasn't the kind of girl to wait for hello. "What can I say? Macey McHenry has been throwing herself at me..." "See, that's the kind of thing that would make me jealous if she weren't way out of your league." "You know, if I had feelings, that might have hurt them.

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.

I was always a late developer - in every field.

God crackles over the intercom and tells Mr. Freeman he's late for a faculty meeting.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

The amount of time she had at her disposal made it difficult for her to be late for anything, even for her own breakfast. And she suspected that even if she were to waste time she would still find a way to be entirely punctual, to the intense annoyance of those who had never mastered the art. For it was an art, less to do with courtesy than with modesty. Only grander personalities could afford to assume that others would wait.

They came in late

pyjamas, all patterned and baggy. Late

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon.

Our house is so difficult to find that people always arrive late, which means that by the time we go into dinner, I've had so many dry Martinis I'm practically under the piano, and it no longer seems to matter that I haven't put the potatoes on.

I'm always a bit late, but I don't mind that, because it means that whoever I'm meeting is already there.

Ampia e gialla è la luce della sera E tenera è di aprile la frescura, tu sei in ritardo ormai di molti anni, eppure di vederti sono lieta.

She would be all out of breath and apologize fervently for being late, as though her lateness depended on such a rare and extenuating matrix of once-in-a-lifetime circumstances that it could never possibly happen again. And the next time she would be just as late.