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Quotes About Late

of his lakeside shack A watchman, Father Time, all gray and bent, Emerged with his uneasy dog and went Along the reedy bank. He came too late.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Benwell's too late for politics, and we are too late for politics, Ede says. Too late for the Occupation. Too late to march on the streets …
~ Lars Iyer
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
~ Charles Dickens
Yes, sir," said I; "him too; late of this parish.
~ Charles Dickens
Ten minutes, good, past eleven.
~ Charles Dickens
Halloa!" the guard replied. "What o'clock do you make it, Joe?" "Ten minutes, good, past eleven.
~ Charles Dickens
It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
~ Charles Dickens
einst ein braver Mann namens Gottfried Nickleby, der sich ziemlich spät noch in den Kopf gesetzt hatte zu heiraten. Da er aber weder jung noch begütert war und daher nicht auf die Hand einer vermögenden Dame rechnen durfte, so verehelichte
~ Charles Dickens
Winter surfaces in the poet by late summer, and spring is already in his inkpot with the first snow.
~ Terri Guillemets
El infierno es una verdad conocida demasiado tarde»
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late. I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.
~ James Patterson
I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.
~ Robyn
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
~ C. L. R. James
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
~ Charmian Clift
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
~ John Schlesinger
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
~ Billy Graham
Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.
~ Tommy Tran
I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
~ Lew Wasserman
I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
~ Jerry Jeff Walker
Some uncomfortable moments later Day told me she had a prior engagement and was running late. It seemed she had made girl plans with a girlfriend of hers to do some girly things girls do when they get together with others of their kind. I said I understood, and I did. There is no doubt in my mind of the gender of Day's companion this night, and perhaps other nights I did not know about.
~ Thomas Ligotti
I like to start my day after noon. I'm not a morning person at all!
~ Sara Sampaio
Listen my love the hour is late my side has an ache If you don't get a taxi my heart will break
~ Norman Mailer
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
~ Oscar Wilde
I looked at my pocket watch. It was half past IX.
~ Connie Willis