I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I swear by the creek in back of the house," I said, our private childhood variation on an oath by the river Styx. And while I said the words I was telling the truth. Because I remembered spring mornings when she helped me escape lessons to run through the woods, summer nights catching glowworms, autumn afternoons acting out the story of Persephone in the leaf pile, and winter evenings sitting by the fire when I told her everything I had studied that day and she fell asleep five times but would never admit to being bored.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you’re in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick”
“I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.”
“I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.”
“I swear, curry is the best hangover cure," Iori said.
"Well, it does contain turmeric," Hozumi pointed out.
"Smarty-pants.”
Source: The Ex-Boyfriend's Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee
“I swear, either I’ve done something very wrong in a previous life, or I’m saving up all of my karma for a rainy day.”
Source: Sukiyaki
“I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.”
Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull
“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”
Source: Maurice
“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“I swear he’s blushing underneath all that fur.”
Source: Blood Pudding & Other Horrific Delicacies
“I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him." She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun. "He's like combustible!”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“I swear." His hand came up in the three-finger Boy Scout pledge.
Annie couldn't help by laugh. "You may be many things, Jake. But an innocent Boy Scout isn't one of them.”
Source: Truly Sweet
“I swear I am seeing stars, and it's not the night sky that I'm looking at, because my eyes are shut, and she's lighting up the heavens as I feel things buried deep within me.”
Source: Faking it with the Billionaire
“I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.”
“I swear, I don't understand white people. Breadcrumbs on macaroni, kissing dogs on the mouth--"
"Treating their dogs like they're their kids," I add.
"Yeah!" says DeVante. "Purposely doing shit that could kill them, like bungee jumping."
"Calling Target 'Tar-jay,' like that makes it fancier," says Seven.
"Fuck," Chris mutters. "That's what my mom calls it."
Seven and I bust out laughing.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“I swear, I hate that poet, for the rest of my life.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.”
“I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they play aggressively.”
“I swear, I loved you less yesterday. Why, then, are you trying to take everything away from me today? Do you know what it's cost me, this fresh hope? I've paid for it with a life.”
Source: Demons
“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
Source: House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence
“I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!”
Source: Passage to India
“I swear I've good morals. It's just that bad ones befriend me. I'm a friendly person, you know. But I will talk to them. Believe you me.”
“I swear I want to be a food model.”
“I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!
I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer’s bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his mouth at King Louis’ table and pocketing the gold forks.”
Source: The Kingmaker's Daughter
“I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.”
Source: I Praise My Destroyer: Poems
“I swear I won't touch you even with a finger until you ask me yourself.”
Source: Fateful Italian Passion
“I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“I swear if I’d have had that blunderbuss, I’d have blown them both over to the dark side and enjoyed it. What wicked thoughts. Stony reflexions; stolen innocence and deadly riposte squirming in concert, devouring all reason—the bloody tang of bitter-sweet revenge…
Running with Finn McCool”
“I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.”
Source: Retribution
“I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhugh to Captain Jeeter”
Source: H: Infidels of Oil
“I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.”
“I swear it by earth and water,"said the boy in green.
"I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said.
"We swear it by ice and fire," they finished it together.
Bran groped for words. Was he supposed to swear something back to them.--
"May your winters be short and your summers bountiful,"he said.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.”
Source: Colorado State of Mind
“I swear it, my queen."
"And I swear this... if you ever betray me, I'll burn you alive."
"I would expect nothing less from the Mother of Dragons.”
Source: Inside HBO's Game of Thrones
“I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)”
“I swear it's easier to purge yourself of great errors than of little villainies.”
Source: The Eighth Day of the Week
“I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.”
“I swear it's so easy. You don't have to have a diet mentality at all if you eat healthily, plant-based food.”
“I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the inside, making them defenseless to everything. Hate is the same way. Hate takes your levelheadedness and even your sanity away from you.”
“I swear, lying there thinking about what they might decide to do next was worse than anything they did later.”
Source: Glory Main
“I swear Mr. Beck, you are insatiable, you already got some this morning", Claire murmured.Henry leaned over her and nipped at her exposed neck, " I will never get enough of you", he rasped. Henry slid his hands up her sides to cup her breasts. " Henry", Claire warned.”
Source: Henry
“I swear my best friend is so fine. I see her every day after work and I'm always like, "she doesn't even have to try!" She's that perfect!”
“I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.”
“I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.”
Source: Warbreaker
“I swear never to involve myself again [in conversation with Nazi sympathisers], for the time granted to mortals is not infinite and the fruits of these discussions is vain.
- Definition of a Germanophile”
Source: Selected Non-fictions
“I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that's my job as a forward.”