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Promise Quotes by William Shakespeare
- And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear…
- It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
- Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
- He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
- Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he…
- Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But…
- Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the…
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,…
- Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
- He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
More Promise Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black