A Quote by William Shakespeare

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

Robert Browning

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

John Heywood

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Mason Cooley

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Walter Scott

Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

Frederick Tilney

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

Gelett Burgess

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

William Congreve

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

William Congreve

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.

Allan Bloom

For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow