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Promises: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Promise is most given when the least is said.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — Musœus of Hero and Leander. L. 234.

You never bade me hope, 'tis true; I asked you not to swear: But I looked in those eyes of blue, I asked you not to swear And read a promise there.— GERALD GRIFFIN — You Never Bade Me

Hope, 'Tis True. We promise according to our hopes, and Hope, Tis True. perform according to our fears. perform according to our fears. And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 8. L. 19.

His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. But his performance, as he is now, nothing. Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. There buds the promise of celestial worth. There buds the promise of celestial worth. и.

Promettre c'est donner, espérer c'est jouir. To promise is to give, to hope is to enjoy.— DELILLE — Jardins. I.