Famous quotes containing the word promise:
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (19001948)
“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 (17781830)
“The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figures rightful owner the sum of $5000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?No questions will be asked.”
—John Huston (19061987)
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