Quotes About Loyalty

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.