Quotes About Loyalty

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Give me the avowed, the erect and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, oh save me from the candid friend!

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Friends come and go, enemies linger.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Friends and wine should be old.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.

There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.