"He bent and laid his lips on her……" — Edith Wharton

More Belated Quotes

This quote is filed under Belated Quotes, one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb
• I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed… — Adolf Hitler
• At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. — Leon Askin
• The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child… — Brock Chisholm
• Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while… — John Milton
• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb
• Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — H. L. Mencken
• The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in… — Richard M. Nixon
• Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. — Harold Brodkey
• When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It… — Raul Grijalva
• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a… — Paul Gauguin

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