Oath Quotes · Page 4

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.

— William Shakespeare

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

— Solon

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

— William Shakespeare

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on,

— Dennis Prager

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

— Carl Sandburg

As lawmakers, we swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

— Conor Lamb

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

— Norman Douglas

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever…

— William Shakespeare

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

— George Washington

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

— Muhammad Ali

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance…

— Harry Houdini

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for…

— J. Michael Straczynski

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's…

— Anonymous

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your…

— Diana Gabaldon

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“I know that, if I took your oath, I should be damned.” “There are those who would envy your insight,” he says,…

— Hilary Mantel

The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led…

— Dennis Hastert

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am…

— Ami Bera

I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't…

— Rumi

“There is an oath upon her,” he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though…

— Diana Gabaldon

Well, on the official record you're my son. But on this post you're just another trooper. You heard me tell therecruits what…

— Anonymous

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its…

— Anonymous

“Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE…

— The Lockman Foundation

I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm…

— Brent Weeks

Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus," he chanted. "Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem." "You just...finished the prophesy,"Rachael stammered. "-An oath…

— Rick Riordan

Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which…

— William Shakespeare

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a…

— Mary Hunter Austin

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government…

— Joseph Sobran

Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it…

— Chuck Todd

When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God.

— Mitt Romney

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

— Robert Jordan

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas…

— Sam Houston

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

— Philip Pullman

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

— Thomas Southerne

I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she…

— Becky G

I have taken an oath already to the United States of America to protect and defend the Constitution. That is the only…

— Andrew McCabe

I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut…

— Jeff Sessions