Quotes About Loyalty

I loved watching Arsenal, my son's an Arsenal fan.

Fans are half of an artiste... without someone to appreciate him, an artiste is nothing.

Im not ashamed to say Im addicted to football.

Life gives us but one friend,

On the morrow of my wedding we shall be parted for a long time; but, Daniel, you are of stuff to understand me. Friendship can subsist in the absence of the friend.

Jeannette, the old cook, took care of the aged couple with blind devotion: she would have stolen the fruit to make their sweetmeats. Instead of taking her money to the savings-bank, she put it judiciously into lotteries, hoping that some day she could bestow a good round sum on her master and mistress

an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.

The poor man's heart was big with affections seeking an object; he had never been loved but by a poodle that had died some time since, of which he would talk to me, asking whether I thought the Church would allow masses to be said for the repose of its soul. His dog, said he, had been a good Christian, who for twelve years had accompanied him to church, never barking, listening to the organ without opening his mouth,

Madame Chardon y su hija Ève creían en Lucien como la mujer de Mahoma creyó en su marido; su abnegación por su porvenir no conocía límites.

I am fully persuaded that, out of his business, he is the most loyal and upright soul in Paris. There are two men in him; he is petty and great — a miser and a philosopher. If I were to die and leave a family behind me, he would be the guardian whom I should appoint. This was how I came to see Gobseck in this light, monsieur. I know nothing of his past life.

En esta amistad, ya vieja, uno de los dos amaba con idolatría, y era David. Por ello Lucien mandaba como mujer que se sabe amada. David obedecía de buen grado.

Ce qui rend les amitiés indissolubles et double leur charme, est un sentiment qui manque à l'amour, la certitude.

Any one who molests Father Goriot will have henceforward to reckon with me," said Eugene, looking at the old man's neighbor; "he is worth all the rest of us put together.

Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.

There comes an age when the only mistress a man can serve is his country.

É tão absurdo dizer que um homem não pode amar a mesma mulher toda a vida, quanto dizer que um violinista precisa de diversos violinos para tocar a mesma música.

oh, you are crying! The Empire has fallen... I salute the Empire.

We live in an age, madame, when nothing is sure," he said. "Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future. You know my attachment to the cause of legitimacy. Suppose some catastrophe; would you not be glad to have a friend in the conquering party?" "Undoubtedly," she said, smiling.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.