Oath Quotes

No oath too binding for a lover. (Sophocles)
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. View quote
Aeschylus
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. View quote
Harry Houdini
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! View quote
Langston Hughes
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution. View quote
Todd Tiahrt
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. View quote
Solon
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. (Solon)
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power. View quote
Richard Rorty
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. View quote
George Herbert
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president. View quote
Chuck Hagel
The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly - as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak - I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once. View quote
Robertson Davies
The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end. View quote
Friedrich Paulus
I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate. View quote
Walther Funk
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. (Pierre de Coubertin)
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. View quote
Plato
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty. View quote
Rick Riordan
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death. View quote
Rick Riordan