Busyness Quote by Louis de Bernières

“Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.”

— Armistead Maupin

“...her patience was, perhaps, tired out; for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.”

— Henry Fielding

“Everyone is always busy, not until it is something that benefits them, or that which concerns whom they love.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.”

— Mary Balogh

“Some day you will have a nemesis,’ Madame warned bitterly. ‘It’s not easy, you know. Someone who has the ability to do everything you…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking…

— Jane Austen

“Good sir, it is as much the part of great spirits to have patience when the world frowns upon them, as to be joyful…

— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

“It was too early for me to interact with the living, and in spite of my general fondness for Sera, she still was another…

— Andrew Rowe

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so…

— John Harwood

“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself…

— Claire Messud