Quotes About Loyalty

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Be England what she will,With all her faults she is my country still.

In this environment – where lies are accepted enthusiastically precisely because they are lies – it is easy to see how the largely discredited theory of Eurasianism could become a central ideological theme, not to mention a strategic doctrine enjoying broad authority among the political elite. In this way, loyalty to a man and a regime has now become supplemented by loyalty to an idea and a set of texts that possibly no one actually believes – not even the authors.

Honor among thieves, perhaps. Honor among spies, never.

Loyalty—in its darkest form, which left so much death as its legacy to the twentieth century—rids the divided self of anxiety and guilt, so that murder smiles.

Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point.

If I live, I will fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Adam betrayed God. Pierre betrayed the god man. (Adam a trahi Dieu. Pierre a trahi l'homme dieu)

The wedding is to be sentenced for life for good past conduct. (Le mariage, c'est être condamné A vie pour bonne conduite passée)

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

Ever been the best of friends!

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."