Promise Breaking Quotes

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

I have a bad history with resolutions! I don't think I have kept up even one of them so far. Once, I promised to myself that I would wake up at 6 A.M. every day - it didn't even last for a week.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.