Promises quotes

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time. In its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“I've nothing to offer you but a life of hardship and danger. But we'd be together.”

Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Robin Hood
Errol Flynn

“- Miles Massey: You promised to have dinner with me once you were free.
- Marylin Rexroth: I said I wouldn't whilst I wasn't, which implies no promise once I am.”
George Clooney - Miles
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Marylin

“From this day, from this time on, I'll never raise my hand against another man.”
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

- Boy #1: Dad, he promised to let me play with it, now he says he didn't and he won't.
- Older Mike: Did you promise? Well, you can't just say, "I promise", then forget about it. "I promise" are the most important words you'll ever say... well almost the most important words you'll ever say.
Adam Hendershott - Boy #1
Tom Hanks - Older Mike

“Please don't let them kill me. I... I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore.”

Cara Seymour - Pat Archer

“- Lisa: Promise me you'll never die.
- Gary Johnston: You know I can't promise that.
- Lisa: If you did that, I would make love to you right now.
- Gary Johnston: I promise I'll never die.”
Kristen Miller - Lisa
Trey Parker - Gary Johnston

“Fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

Since the beginning of time people have been frightened, unhappy, scared of death, scared of getting old, and there's always been priests, shamans, shrinks around to tell 'em: "I know you're frightened, but I can help you. Of course, it is going to cost you a few bucks". But they can't help you because life is what it is.
Woody Allen - David Dobel

“A man of honor always pays his debts... and keeps his word.”
Paul Newman - John Rooney

- Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair: When it was all over, I promised myself I'd never be part of killing kids again. That's why it took me so long to come around to help you. Now it looks like I have us both trapped into something...
- Doug Masters: That could kill us?

Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair
Jason Gedrick - Doug Masters

“If promises were crackers, my daughter would be fat.”
Elya Baskin - Mr. Ditkovich

“- Eric: Linus. Hey, stop walking. Linus! Hold up, man! Stop. What the hell, man? I did nothing to you.
- Linus: Exactly. You did nothing. Absolutely nothing. Eric Bottler graduates high school and never looks back. You bailed on our plan, Bottler!”
Chris Marquette - Linus
Sam Huntington - Eric

“- Frank Martin: Look at me. I promise I'll never let anyone hurt you a lot.
- Jack Billings: Promise?
- Frank Martin: You know my fourth rule? Never make a promise you can't keep.”
Jason Statham - Frank Martin
Hunter Clary - Jack Billings

“- Reuben Tishkoff: If, God forbid, anything does happen to you, we will not be involved.
- Terry Benedict: You better not be, Reuben. You better not be.”

Elliott Gould - Reuben Tishkoff
Andy Garcia - Terry Benedict

“- The Pink Poodle: Please. Please. I know you're different from the others. Those that have had their way with me make their empty promises, but they are all lies - lies. And I'm afraid and terribly, terribly tired.
- Babe: Where's your human?
- The Pink Poodle: My humans belong to someone else now. Someone younger and prettier.”
Russi Taylor - The Pink Poodle
Elizabeth Daily - Babe

“An oath to a scoundrel is meaningless.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Chauvelin

“I already gave them my word. I told them I'd bring them all home to their mothers, which means I already lied to half of them. Can't lie to the rest.”

Barry Pepper - Mike Strank

“- Mrs. Gloria Teasdale: The future of Freedonia rest on you. Promise me you'll follow in the footsteps of my husband.
- Rufus T. Firefly: How do you like that? I haven't been on the job five minutes and already she's making advances to me.”

Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Gloria Teasdale
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
Clint Eastwood

“- Bobby Darin: My momma used to tell me a story when I was a kid that in the Middle Ages, one of the knights in King Arthur's court, he laid down his sword between himself and Guinevere, and he promised that he would never cross over to the other side.
- Sandra Dee: Really?
- Bobby Darin: I am laying down this sword between us.”
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin
Kate Bosworth - Sandra Dee

“Princess, we'll find Han. I promise.”
Billy Dee Williams - Lando Calrissian

“Who cares about this stupid election? We all know it doesn't matter who gets elected president of Carver. Do you really think it's going to change anything around here? Make one single person smarter or happier or nicer? The only person it does matter to is the one who gets elected. The same pathetic charade happens every year, and everyone...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jessica Campbell - Tammy Metzler

“She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“Once you've made a promise you should keep it!”
Rupert Grint - Ben