Promise

Famous quotes containing the word promise:

“her fine blades making the air wince
but her cargo
no promise then:
delivered
palpable
ours.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“We laugh and we touch.
I promise you love. Time will not take away that.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)