Oath Quotes

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.

Abraham Lincoln

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

William Shakespeare

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.

Abraham Lincoln

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

William Shakespeare

I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

William Shakespeare

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

Jacqueline Carey

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?""I don't know. I've never done either.

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

William Shakespeare

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

Euripides

Just say, dakhilak.”Without hesitation, “Dakhilak.”He nodded. Her accent was getting no better. “Now, you can never take it back.”“Well, what does it mean? Thank you?”She should have asked sooner. He didn’t turn to meet the gaze he felt on him, his voice full of sand, his stomach sick. “It gives me charge of your life.

I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.

Alexander the Great