Promise/society

Famous quotes containing the words promise and/or society:

“I promise you, but for your company,
I would have been a-bed an hour ago.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“As long as you don’t fly openly in the face of society, society doesn’t ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)