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Swearing: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

For it comes to pass oft, that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.— T. N. iii. 4.

When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers by to curtail his oaths.— Cym. ii. 1.

And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure.— Cym. ii. 1

I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the— T. ii. 2

liquor is not earthly.