Quotes About Loyalty

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

no good ever comes of a man who forgets an old friend

Of two friends one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it.

Many rare beauties live under our skies, And bright shine the stars in the dark of their eyes. Their love is as sweet as a pleasure can be- But a youth ever longs for a life that is free. Money will buy any number of wives, But a fiery horse is beyond any price. Fast as the wind he will bear you away, Never deceive you, and never betray.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him up her life.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

There was not a scrap of tangible evidence to show that he had spent the most wonderful year of his life with her. Which only increased his desire to remain faithful to her.

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

Too much faith is the worst ally

The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from

The fragile edifice of their love would certainly come tumbling down. For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity, and loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

El libro era para Teresa la contraseña de una hermandad secreta.

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.

Para o meu islandês, a amizade é outra coisa: ser-se um guarda diante da porta onde o amigo esconde a sua vida privada; ser-se aquele que nunca abrirá essa porta; que não permitirá que ninguém a abra.

See nõrkus, mis tollal oli paistnud Terezale talumatu, eemaletõukav ja mis oli ta maalt minema ajanud, tõmbas teda korraga ligi. Ta adus, et kuulub nõrkade hulka, nõrkade leeri, nõrkade maale ja et ta peab olema neile ustav just seepärast, et nad on nõrgad ja ahmivad keset lauset õhku.

não são os inimigos, mas sim os amigos que condenam o homem à solidão.

This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?

One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents husband, country, and love were gone—what was left to betray?

Pero qué es la traición? Traición significa abandonar las propias filas. Traición significa abandonar las propias filas e ir hacia lo desconocido. Sabina no conoce nada más bello que ir hacia lo desconocido