Quotes About Loyalty

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

We are betrayed by what is false within

A tried stedfast woman is the one jewel of the sex. She points to her husband like the sunflower; her love illuminates him; she lives in him, for him; she testifies to his worth; she drags the world to his feet; she leads the chorus of his praises; she justifies him in his own esteem. Surely there is not on earth such beauty!

our loyalties are to the aesthetics, not the evidence. We are seduced by the way things look, and overlook the way they function. But beauty is seldom truth, and truth is seldom beauty.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I hate that 74 million of my compatriots voted to keep in power our worst president, who convinced most of them that the election was stolen. The stab in the back will fester in their minds for years, a threat to the rest of us. But it's too easy to be riveted to that disturbing number and forget the 81 million who voted him out.

It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on its head.

Jaime Lannister, son of the mighty Tywin, forced to mind the door while your king eats and drinks and sh*ts and f*cks.

Ah, the Starks! Quick tempers, slow minds.

If I had stabbed the mad king in the belly instead of the back, would you admire me more?

I'll go to war with him if I have to. They can write a ballad about us, "The War For Cersei's Cunt."

Your king says he betrayed me for love. I say he betrayed me for firm t*ts and a tight fit. And I can respect that.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.

Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world if treachery and deceit.

Who'd want to kill the likes of you?" "My lord father, for one. He's put me in the van." "I'd do the same. A small man with a big shield. You'll give the archers fits.

Debes conocer a los hombres que te siguen-le oyo decir a Robb una vez-, y ellos debe conocerte. No les pidas a tus hombres que mueran por un desconocido.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.