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Quotes About Loyalty

So." Penelope slapped her hands on her thighs as she turned back to Lydia. "I was wondering if you could help me out." "Oka-a-ay." Lydia drew out the word to convey her great trepidation. This was how Penelope sucked you in. She didn't tell you to do things; she told you that she needed your help.
~ Karin Slaughter
Families are complicated. People put up with a lot of shit because of blood.
~ Karin Slaughter
He can not hear us, Falon. You and I, we share blood. It is just the two of us in our own little world. I can come to you at my leisure, and Rafael will know nothing of it. Unless you choose to tell him. Then - Lucien shook his head - what do you think my brother will do when he discovers his chosen one came yo me in every sense of the word?
~ Karin Tabke
is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.' Cicero.
~ Kasey Michaels
Trust isn't a gift, Cameron. You earn it, and it's not cheap.
~ Kat Richardson
If some act is wrong it is simply wrong, no matter who tells you to do it or for what grand motive. It seemed to me that a true patriot and decent human being rejects doing wrong and puts the ideals on which the country is founded ahead of the directives of government bureaucrats. If the government is off the rails, you don't keep on riding the train to destruction—you certainly don't push it there on your own; you start hauling the other way as hard as you can.
~ Kat Richardson
Well... they say friends help you move and good friends help you move bodies.
~ Kat Richardson
What a good husband you are,' Nancy said afterward, 'always taking your wife's side rather than your mother's.' 'It's the side of reason I am on,' Teddy said. 'It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.
~ Kate Atkinson
Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.
~ Kate Atkinson
Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?
~ Kate Atkinson
Bridget wouldn't let Trixie come to Mrs. Dodds's house, she said she would never hear the end of it. "She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.
~ Kate Atkinson
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
~ Honore de Balzac
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
~ Horace
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
~ Isaac Barrow
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.
~ James Joyce
If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.
~ James Stewart
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Men make the best friends.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.
~ Jerry Smith
In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.
~ Joe Pantoliano
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
~ John Barth
Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.
~ John Betjeman
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
~ John Dryden