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Quotes About Loyalty

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
~ Mason Cooley
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~ Petrarch
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
~ Paul Simon
All lasting business is built on friendship.
~ Unknown
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
~ Richard Burton
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~ William Hazlitt
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
~ William Hazlitt
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~ Unknown
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
~ Anita Brookner
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
~ St Jerome
Friendship and money: oil and water.
~ Mario Puzo
A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
~ Thomas More
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
~ Ernie Banks
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
~ Charlotte Bronte
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
~ Thomas Fuller
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
~ Mortimer Adler
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~ Ann Landers
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
~ Thomas Moore
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
~ Truman Capote