Promise

Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.

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Famous quotes containing the word promise:

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

    “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)

    “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)