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).