Quotes About Oaths

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

Yes, very brave," Shallan said. "We humans are known to bite." "Ha ha. Yes, bite. And break your oaths and murder your spren. Ha ha.

As the escort disappeared, their pent-up feelings found vent in a few hysterical tears from the Duchess, some bad language from Mother Shipton, and a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy. The philosophic Oakhurst alone remained silent. He listened calmly to Mother Shipton's desire to cut somebody's heart out, to the repeated statements of the Duchess that she would die in the road, and to the alarming oaths that seemed to be bumped out of Uncle Billy as he rode forward.

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

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

The colonel could swear with vehemence and originality when he was angry, spilling his oaths in a pretty pepper and disproving Talleyrand's definition of swearing as the means by which the inarticulate gave themselves the impression of eloquence.

May you speak the truth from a loving heart. May your tongue utter no slander. May you do no wrong to a neighbor and cast no slurs. May you weigh your words carefully and keep your oaths. And may you never be shaken.

Hurry up and go back and come over here quick, you cock suckers." . . .[Counsel for the claimants objected unsuccessfully to this language.] What Akipa meant to have them understand was that he had no fear of them; that he despised them. The Indians had no curse words, or oaths, and they used this expression to express their contempt.

I did something that should not have been done and, by direct consequence of that decision, I sit here now and my world is destroyed, my oaths broken with my legacy one of misery and treachery.

A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ear I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.

Petrified by his aspect, and still more shrinking from the fiery dart that he held, the men fell back in dismay, and Ahab again spoke:— All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye may know to what tune this heart beats; look ye here; thus I blow out the last fear! And with one blast of his breath he extinguished the flame.

Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreement but forever these hold feelings of hate for each other, so there can be no love between you and me, nor shall there be oaths between us, but one or the other must fall before then to glut with his blood Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard.

As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreement but forever these hold feelings of hate for each other, 265  so there can be no love between you and me, nor shall there be oaths between us, but one or the other must fall before then to glut with his blood Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard.

I'd rather entrust my daughters to Casanova than my secrets to a novelist. Literary fires are hotter even than sexual ones. And literary oaths are even strawier than the matrimonial or monastic varieties.

Gods are functional only for their names being used in oaths. They lend a pungency, a focus to sharp remarks.

Los juramentos eran un poco como los corazones: roto el primero, los demás resultaban pan comido.

A caminho daquele que bem poderia ser o último dia da sua curta existência disse a si mesmo que, graças a Alícia, aprendera pelo menos duas coisas úteis que lhe serviriam para sempre, se vivesse para o contar. A primeira era a mentir. A segunda, e esta ainda a sentia em carne viva, era que os juramentos são um pouco como os corações: quebrando o primeiro, os outros não custam nada.

gracias a Alicia, había aprendido al menos dos cosas ùltiles que le servirían para siempre, si es que vivía para contarlo. La primera era mentir. La segunda, y esta aún la sentía en carne viva, era que los juramentos eran un poco como los corazones: roto el primero, los demàs resultaban pan comido.

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

Oh, so poignant'' said Varys. ''And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths

blood runs truer than oaths.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.