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Tag Name "Oaths" (44)

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He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. I'm coming back for you, Calypso, he said to the night wind. I swear it on the River Styx.
Rick Riordan
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The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.
Stephen Crane
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
Rudyard Kipling
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Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.
Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
John Quincy Adams
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When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Sophocles
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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.
Wilfred Owen
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
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A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
Pierre Corneille
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When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.
William Shakespeare
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For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.
William Shakespeare
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What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana
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Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
John Locke
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