| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 50797 |
| QUOTATION: | ‘Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
But the plain single vow that is vowed true.
What is not holy, that we swear not by,
But take the Highest to witness. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Diana, in All’s Well That Ends Well, act 4, sc. 2, l. 21-2.
Rejecting Bertram’s protestations of love as unholy. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shakespeare Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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