Promise

Famous quotes containing the word promise:

“Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well. That same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your house. I promise you, your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)

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