Quotes About Loyalty

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

Thy mother honored us. We do not forget. - The yarthkin, to Thorgil

Once she asked me to kiss her. I said, "No, I want to keep our friendship and give it back to God." She agreed. We remained friends for over fourteen years.

John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in many ways defines the spy genre; it introduces the grand theme of ferreting out the Russian agent high up in British intelligence.

Fears about his fidelity were ridiculous, according to Henry 'There never was a purer...affection than what I profess for you,' he wrote. He was 'indifferent indeed to all the rest of your sex.

I looked up ivy in The Meanings of Flowers. The clinging vine stood for "fidelity.

An open enemy is better than a false friend. —Greek proverb

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it broke the tension and caused Pierre to bark again, indignantly. All of which meant that neither of them heard it when Zach turned to Lucy in that same second and whispered: There's something else you need to know. I'm not just your friend. I am completely in love with you.

Scott Bedbury, Starbucks' vice president of marketing, openly recognized that "consumers don't truly believe there's a huge difference between products," which is why brands must "establish emotional ties" with their customers

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham. — Temeraire

I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape

No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back," Temeraire said.

Maximus] put his head down and said in a conspiratorial whisper, "Tell Temeraire that Lily and I have not forgotten our promise; we will not let them hang you at all. Laurence stared up at the immense Regal Copper. All his crew looked deeply distressed, as well they might, the outlaw remark being perfectly audible several clearings over.

She didn't mean anything, Kasia said, brave brave brave, the way I hadn't been for her.

I will never let Berkley commit treason, ever, Maximus said, but if he did, I would step on anyone who tried to hang him.

Bring me the winter king, and I will make you a summer queen.

My lady, I did not think you could answer it, when I took you from your home without your leave, and set value only on your gift. But I am answered truly. You have given fair return for insult thrice over and set your worth: higher than my life and all my kingdom and all who live therein, and though you send my people to the fire, I can claim no debt to repay. It is justly done.

No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.

A servant is easy to make dishonest when they bring you coin and never touch any themselves," he said. "Let her feel that her fortune rises with yours.

They are ours," he said, "although not properly the sailors: they are only along because we would not leave them to drown, and ought to be more grateful for it than they are. Laurence," he said, turning, "this is Palta, and that man is called Taruca: Iskierka snatched him, and I cannot find she asked him in the least.

I wasn't going through. I wasn't going through until everyone was out.