Punctual Quotes - Page 3

• United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

  Charles Dickens

  Hot, Muffins, Baking

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 2

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• I wake up very early every morning and I have my coffee at 6:30. If it comes at 6:35, I'm very upset. I don't say anything but I'm upset because I'm so punctual in doing things, that if I lose five minutes I have to rush everything.

  Sophia Loren

  Morning, Coffee, Upset

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

  W. H. Auden

  Appreciation, Men, Discipline

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• Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

  John Milton

  Light, Earth, Return

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.283

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• CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Finals, Credit, Redemption

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1865). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.151

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• I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sooner Or Later

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1980). “I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy: More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing.

  Nayantara

  Acting, Way, Actors

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• May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

  Lord Byron

  Grateful, Skills, Coats

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Hotel Lobby, Waiting, Foyers

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Quality, Faults, Want

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• Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lonely, Mind, Punctuality

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• I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.340

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• Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Character, Giving, Punctuality

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.4

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• I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

  Charles Dickens

  Motivational, Determination, Order

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.216

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