Quotes About Loyalty

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. GEORGE MACDONALD

Ignoring the vices of our friends and the virtues of our enemies sets us up for nasty surprises.

Maybe Goring will be the new Fuhrer when that Bormann dies. He seems sort of different from the others. The only way that Bormann got it in the first place was to weasel in when Hitler realized how fast he was going.

Better a live dog than a dead prince

Gli americani leali potevano tornare a respirare tranquillamente: la loro libertà di fare ciò che gli veniva detto di fare era stata salvaguardata.

So you send other people into the camps, he thought, to get your husband out. It sounds like a typical police deal. It's probably the truth

You know that, Ted. It's the most precious thing we have. Loyalty between us, between protector and serf, between a man and his mistress. Maybe, Benteley said slowly, a person should be loyal to an ideal.

The little man with beard and glasses leaped up. 'There's nobody here has anything to do with governments! We're all good people!

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

two brothers held together by what they can't share.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

because he's Will

Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, That's the last of 'em Lee. He said, or thought, Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we. She said, We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra. Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?

Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

Marisa! Marisa!" The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra's mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear, she said with a final effort,Because he's Will.

Will, I used to come here in my Oxford and sit on this exact same bench whenever I wanted to be alone, just me and Pan. What I thought was that if you - maybe just once a year - if we could come here at the same time, just for an hour or something, then we could pretend we were close again-because we would be close, if you sat here and I sat just here in my world - Yes, he said, as long as I live, I'll come back. Whenever I am in the world, I'll come back here -

Princess, princess, youngest daughter, Open up and let me in! Or else your promise by the water Isn't worth a rusty pin. Keep your promise, royal daughter, Open up and let me in!

If I told you half of what he's done to keep us alive and safe, well, you wouldn't imagine it could be true.

The two dark figures of the bene elim has not moved. But they spoke: You must come with us now. Lord Asriel needs you at once. The enemy's power is growing every minute. The shaman has told you what your task is. Follow us and help us win. Come with us. Come this way. Come now. And Will looked from them to Lyra's rucksack and back again, and he didn't hear a word they said.

And if we - later on - she was whispering shakily, If we meet someone we like, and if we marry them, then we must be good to them, and not make comparisons all the time and wish we were married to each other instead...But just keep coming here once a year, just for an hour, just to be together...

I think Lyra's braver than me; I think she's the best friend I ever had.