Oath Quotes

I write a woman's oaths in water.

— Sophocles

Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end.

— Rihanna

“There is no such thing as a lover's oath. ”

— Plato

“Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure.”

— Shakespeare

A liar is full of oaths.

— Pierre Corneille

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

— Sophocles

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

— James Madison

A liar freely gives his oath

— Douglas Malloch

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

— Samuel Johnson

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

— Anonymous

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

— Edmund Waller

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

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

— William Shakespeare

We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I say under oath that I have inherited the religion I did not have the right to choose

— Mak_786

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

— Christopher Hitchens

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the…

— Friedrich Paulus

“He swore a soldier’s oath to her; she’d have the pearl before the sun passed over. Harmon never broke his word.”

— Kelly Said

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform,…

— Joseph Brodsky

The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the…

— Chuck Todd

“We make a vow to God never to cut our hair or beard; the oath stems from the Nazarite vow in the…

— Colin Warner

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no…

— William Howard Taft

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his…

— Pat Robertson

“The first word of any constitutional oath of public office by an elected politician should be morality! For only then can the…

— Alastair Agutter

Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.” “Did he…

— Janet Evanovich

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not…

— Abraham Lincoln

The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as…

— Edgar Berman

Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You…

— Jamie Raskin

On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong.It rejects the Christian principle of…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle…

— Victor Hugo

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be…

— Franz Kafka

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Brent Weeks

“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

“Thalestris stepped forward to join my sister, her deep voice ringing out with the words that we, as initiates, were compelled to…

— Lesley Livingston

“Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his achievement. In his…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should…

— Zygmunt Bauman