“The trouble with a man who takes his time is that he takes your time, too.”
Featherisms (2008)
Source: Bared to You
“The trouble with a man who takes his time is that he takes your time, too.”
Featherisms (2008)
“To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.”
The Oaken Heart
“The trouble with liberal democracy is that it takes a long time to mature.”
The Private Life of an Indian Prince (1969)
Interview with the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (1998), Background
“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”
Quoted in [Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA545, 2006, Yale University Press, 0-300-10798-6, 545]
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 5, on Polyphemia
Context: Roadstrum had always believed that he had troubles enough of his own. He seldom borrowed trouble, and never on usurious terms. He knew that it was a solid thing that sheep do not gather in taverns and drink beer, not even potato beer; that they do not sing, not even badly; that they do not tell stories. But a stranger can easily make trouble for himself on a strange world by challenging local customs.
"But I am the greet Roadstrum," he said, suddenly and loudly. "I am a great one for winning justice for the lowly, and I do not scare easily. I threw the great Atlas at the wrestle, and who else can say as much? I suffer from the heroic sickness every third day about nightfall, and I am not sure whether this is the third day or not. I say you are men and not sheep. I say: Arise and be men indeed!"
"It has been tried before," said Roadstrum's friend, the sheep, "and it didn't work."
"You have tried a revolt, and it failed?"
"No, no, another man tried to incite us to revolt, and failed."
“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”
Source: The Quiet American
“It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.”
Book II, p. 398.
Collected Works
In [Lipika, http://books.google.com/books?id=_wvlAAAAMAAJ, 1973, 26]
“The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture”
About Michael Heseltine, according to Alan Clark in his diaries. Clark called it "snobby but cutting".
Alan Clark Diaries: In Power 1983-1992 (Wednesday 17 June 1987) 1993 Weidenfield & Nicholson