Quotes About Loyalty

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.

We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination.

Ah, there's no friends like the old friends.

whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow

You die for your country... I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life.

He thought, but not for long, of soldiers and sailors, whose legs had been shot off by cannonballs, ending their days in some pauper ward, and of cardinal Wolsey's words: If I had served my God as I have served my king He would not have abandoned me in my old days.

It is dangerous to abandon one's own country, but it is more dangerous still to return to it, for then your fellow country-men, if they can, will drive a knife into your heart.

O Sweetheart, hear thou Your lover's tale A man shall have sorrow When friends him fail. For he shall know then Friends be untrue And a little ashes Their words come to But one onto him Will softly move And softly woo him In ways of love. His hand is under Her smooth round breast So he who has sorrow Shall have rest.

Some day we shall have to choose between England and Europe.

But this is the point. You die for your country, suppose. (He places his arm on Private Carr's sleeve.) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I don't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life!

Ben birleÅŸme lehine rey veren Sir John Blackwood'un sulbündenim. Hepimiz Ä°rlandal?y?z, kral oÄŸluyuz hepimiz. Yaz?k, dedi Stephen.

And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room.

There's no substitute for loyalty.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

The men and women who protected them and would one day live in Valhalla required no recompense other than their own self-respect.

and I set it on the night table. I feared for Clete. I was protected by the culture of law enforcement, one that is ferociously tribal in nature. Clete was a disgraced cop, a lone soul sowing destruction and chaos everywhere he went, and hated by the Mob and NOPD. I felt his eyes on the side of my face.

Administrators don't believe in conspiracies. If they did, they'd have to resign their jobs. That

Then count me in," Wash said to Mal. "Whatever Zoë wants, I want." "My man." Zoë slipped an arm around her husband's waist and kissed him. "That's why I love you." "It's also why you haven't killed me all this time we've been married." "Smart of you to realize.

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, he said finally, then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

The Empire values dedication. Especially when it's unswerving.

Tarkin had long nursed suspicions about who Vader was beneath the black face mask and helmet, as well as how he had come to be, but he knew better than to give open voice to his thoughts.

And the Jedi?" Lyra asked. "Also doing what they can. But remember, Dooku is one of their own, and he's a crafty opponent. At times he seems to be able to read our minds, if not simply outguess us.

To her horror, Starstone realized she was suddenly alone with Vader, who immediately signaled his stormtroopers to leave her to him, and to devote themselves to slaughtering the few Wookiees who remained on the tier.

It is my will to join my destiny forever with the Order of the Sith Lords.