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Quotes About Loyalty

O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
~ William Shakespeare
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
~ William Shakespeare
Let me have men about me that are fat, ...Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
~ William Shakespeare
I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
~ William Shakespeare
And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
~ William Shakespeare
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
~ William Shakespeare
I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
~ William Shakespeare
My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation: that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and my life is done: Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try; In that I live and for that will I die.
~ William Shakespeare
Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
~ William Shakespeare
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!
~ William Shakespeare
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
~ William Shakespeare
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
~ William Shakespeare
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an 't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man's too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
~ William Shakespeare
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
~ William Shakespeare
Make me a willow cabin at your gate And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Hallo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out Olivia! O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth But you should pity me
~ William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
~ William Shakespeare
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all
~ William Shakespeare
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
~ William Shakespeare
for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
~ William Shakespeare
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
~ William Shakespeare
Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you did My heart fly to your service, there resides to make me slave to it, and for your sake Am I this patient log-man.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
~ William Shakespeare
thou art the best o' the cut-throats
~ William Shakespeare
You are a villain! Iago: You are a senator!
~ William Shakespeare