(28 quotes found)
“Punctuality is the politeness of kings”
Louis XVIII of France
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
Don Marquis
“My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?”
Billy Wilder
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
William Hazlitt
“Late to bed and late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor and foolish.”
Rupam Das
“SAS offers all travelers to Scandinavia and Europe the highest levels of safety, punctuality, comfort and convenience.”
Lee Young
“The best way to be on time is to be early.”
Jeffrey Benjamin
“We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.”
Mark Twain
“He was brilliantly still, and I've never known anyone so punctual.”
Paula Rego
“It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.”
Isaac Rosenberg