Quotes on Broken Promises

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.