Plighted Quotes

#1. I was simple enough to think, that because my faith was plighted to another, there could be no danger in my being with you; and that the consciousness of my engagement was to keep my heart as safe and sacred as my honour.

Jane Austen

#2. New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

John Dryden

#3. The kiss was brief and gentle, scarcely more than the formality that concludes a wedding, yet as striking in its impact as though they had this minute plighted a troth.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.

Richard Corliss

#5. And once again we plighted our troth,
And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.

Heinrich Heine

#6. Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

Robert Southey

#7. Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; Who covers faults, at last shame them derides.

William Shakespeare

#8. I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

Paul Tillich

#9. I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#10. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

George Meredith

#11. Statistics cannot substitute for the human being before you; statistics embody averages, not individuals.

Jerome Groopman

#12. I asked him: Why didn't you just tell me? He said: 'If I tell you, you'll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you'll always remember.

Merrie Haskell

#13. The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

Tip O'Neill

#14. What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

James Murdoch

#15. Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual desires. They are adults and should be free to seek out help for themselves with government interference,

Maggie Gallagher

#16. I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

Bill Dickey

#17. Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

Osho