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“He sounded pathetic and he knew it, but he had been driven to this humiliation by love. A woman can do that. They have power. We might all say that the oath to our lord is the strong oath that guides our lives, the oath that binds us and rules all the other oaths, but few men would not abandon every oath under the sun for a woman. I have broken oaths. I am not proud of that, but almost every oath I broke was for a woman.”
Bernard Cornwell
“No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word.”
Jake Yaniak, The Punishment of the Gods“Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people’s honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people.”
Raymond E. Feist, King of Foxes“Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.”
William Shakespeare“I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.”
T. Mountebank, Sister Sable“Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.”
Euripides, Medea“Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,—imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.”
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman“I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury“O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,”
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