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

— Rob S. Rice

“the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken…

— Barack Obama

“An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all.”

— Brent Weeks

“Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were…

— E.R. Eddison

“It is easy and amusing to make promises one knows one can never keep, but to offer an oath when one knows it must…

— Galen Beckett

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

— Samuel Butler

“OATHS, the Stormfather rumbled, ARE THE SOUL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and…

— Cormac McCarthy

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

— Samuel Butler

“My prince, I wish to enlist. I swear to serve, and rout your enemy, and wash my blade with his blood.” “How savagely Valorian…

— Marie Rutkoski

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I…

— James Joyce

“oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.”

— Herman Melville