Vows

Vows are particularly serious promises or oaths, often made within a religious context, such as a wedding vow or a vow of chastity.

Quotes

 * Vow me no vows.
 * Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit without Money (c. 1614; publisher 1639), Act IV, scene 4.


 * Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
 * Ecclesiastes. V. 5.


 * Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid  Loved in this world of sorrow?
 * James Hogg, The Broken Heart (1829).


 * Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That 'tis a kind of Heaven to be deluded by him.
 * Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens (1677), Act I, scene 1.


 * Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 96.


 * Let us embrace, and from this very moment Vow an eternal misery together.
 * Thomas Otway, The Orphan(1680), Act IV, scene 1.


 * Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3. ("Lends" in quarto, "gives" in folio).