Quotes About Vows

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.

Tell me that none of this troubles you, Jon...and I'll name you a liar, and know I have the truth of it. Jon drew himself up, taut as a bowstring. And if it did trouble me, what might I do, bastard as I am? What will you do? Mormont asked. Bastard as you are? Be troubled, said Jon, and keep my vows.

There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.

Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he'd made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he'd paid to keep them.

I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten.

A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's are prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.

Pourquoi ? demanda-t-il à l'armurier. Que suis-je pour eux ? — Un chevalier qui s'est souvenu de ses vœux.

When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."

It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.

Marriage is a series of promises.

Your view on this is narrow. That's how you're built." It didn't feel narrow to her. It felt right. "Marriage is a promise. That's one of the ways you talked me into it. If you break one part of the promise, it's going to crack other parts.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.

Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.

I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites!

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.