"As Curione said to Caesar, delay is injurious to anyone who is fully prepared for action.

I remember also to have read somewhere that such waste of time in diplomacy and palavering is the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds, who regard the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as an evidence of the most admirable and consummate prudence." "Oh, you need not use so much learning with me," said Nino.

"I assure you that I will be neither dilatory nor ambiguous.

In fact, I will go at once, without even dusting my boots, and I will say, Give me your daughter, if you can; and if you cannot, I will still hope to marry her.

He will probably say 'No,' and then I will carry her off.