Quotes About Loyalty

Put not your trust in bloody princes, they can plead expedience.

no man ever willingly marries his mistress.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. —Ronald Reagan

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When great men blunder, they count their losses in pride and reputation and glory. The underlings count their losses in blood. —Theodore C. Mason, Battleship Sailor (1982)

You got somebody in your corner, you lucky ... and blessed. And when you get that, you gotta know it, stand by it, and treat it with care. To nurture it. To build on it.

There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.

If it would've been me, I would've left Hutch out of it. 'Cause Hutch, he was mean.

It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice—

There's a trick to lying. Hold to the same line, regardless of who you're with.

You've made a wise choice, lad...I won't insult your intelligence with the word 'trust'.

I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.

that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.

Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird?

They linger yet,      Avengers of their native land.—Gray

But even the falsest of men pay so much homage to truth as to seem its votaries.

Tis an ancient and sacred tie that binds man to his nation; neither can it be severed without infamy.

You care if I say motherfucking around you? I smile. I'd be fucking offended if you didn't. Hank laughs, slaps his knee. That's my motherfucking Boy.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

I have my sister, my uncle, and that's it. I don't talk to my mother, I don't talk to my father.

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

Growing up, my uncle used to always have dogs, and we always had a dog growing up. I couldn't remember a time when I never had a dog. It was part of the family. So once I actually got old enough, I got a dog in college, then I felt he needed a friend, so I got another dog. They just started adding up from there.

We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we had.