Quote of William Shakespeare - Weigh oath with oath, and you...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh.

William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream

promise

Translation

(French, German)

Pesez des serments avec des serments, et vous pèserez le néant.

William Shakespeare - Le Songe d'une nuit d'été

Wäg Eid an Eid, so wirst du gar nichts wägen.

William Shakespeare - Ein Sommernachtstraum

Quotes for: promise

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau /

promise

We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Émile Zola /

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

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