Quotes About Loyalty

the French Canadians… derived greater pleasure from singing "God Save the King" than from singing "Rule Britannia.

our common dangers and common loyalties have wiped all that out. The fire of war has burnt up the misunderstandings of the past. We feel we have a friend whom we can trust, and I hope he will continue to feel the same about us. I pray he may live to see his beloved Russia not only glorious in war, but also happy in peace.

The machinery of a great party, and still more of a great conspiracy, needed careful and constant attention.

It is not every councillor who, like the Bastard in 'King John,' will say to his sovereign: 'But if you be afeared to hear the worst, Then let the worst unheard fall on your head.

During the period of choice, a man must fight for his opinion with the utmost tenacity. But once the choice has been made, then the business must be carried through in loyal comradeship.

There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.

Soon-Yi was the one adopted child who stood up to Mia and incurred her wrath.

Since Soon-Yi and I became a couple; from the first day she moved in with me, we've never spent a single night apart in twenty-five years. Nor have we had many meals apart.

ELLIOT (V.O.) (CONT'D) There's something very lovely and real about Hannah. (tossing his bathrobe aside and lying down on the bed next to Hannah, his hands crossed over his stomach) She gives me a very deep feeling of being part of something. She's a wonderful woman...and I betrayed her.

Wherever you go, said the Patriarch, I'm convinced you'll come to no good. So remember, when you get into trouble, I absolutely forbid you to say that you are my disciple.

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie, te topas con que tienes que confiar. Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla.

Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla. Pero ese día no me traicionaron; me salvaron.

Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.

You'll always be on better terms with your allies if you can secure your own provisions, and you'll increase the loyalty of your soldiers. Give them all they need, and your troops will follow you to the ends of the earth.

You're a good friend, Apollodorus, but would you rather see me put to death justly or unjustly?

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

The men nodded vigorously at me. When they took hold of me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it. I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

They were like curmudgeonly old friends who would never admit that they liked me yet came round to see me all the time. The

I believed him. (Ravi was a merciless teaser. The first time he called Mamaji "Mr. Fish" to my face I left a banana peel in his bed.)

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.