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Tag Name "Despatch" (12)

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Despatch is the soul of business.
Bill Vaughan
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
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Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
Andy Zaltzman
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No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind despatch of a strong one.
Charles Caleb Colton
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
Plautus
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Tacitus
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For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.
Alastair Campbell
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Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.
Ignatius of Loyola
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Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
Lord Chesterfield
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The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
Publilius Syrus
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Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
William Penn