A Quote by Sterling W Sill

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

Sterling W Sill

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Sterling W Sill
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March 31, 1903 - May 25, 1994

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

John Frederick Boyes

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

Bertrand Russell

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.

Bertrand Russell

One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Richard Cecil

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

Jim Butcher

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.