#Punctuality Quotes

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

“I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.”

“Unpunctuality is a vile habit.”

“Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.”

“If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.”

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time”

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.”

“I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.”

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

“We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.”

“Better never than late.”

“Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.”

“When to arrive at the airport?: You should be at the airport already.”

“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”

“An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.”