Quotes About Loyalty

A Doberman Pinscher can sometimes spontaneously run riot, often even leaving the field entirely. After a short time, he will come back with an amazed look in his eyes and happily jump on his desperately calling handler.

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.

It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent

But if and when I find myself up a tree with a circle of man-eating tigers crouching on the ground below, and a squad of beavers starting to gnaw at the trunk of the tree, the sight of Saul approaching would be absolutely beautiful. I have never seen him fazed.

Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it shouldn't be allowed to get the bit between its teeth. I

A good friend can shield you from the storm.

I laughed. "I must have the only servant who never attempts to put on any airs and graces for me." "But then she's a hopeless case, we all admit that,

People will let you down. All the time they'll let you down. But you must never let them down.

Y las perritas más viejitas? —dije yo—. …Las canitas.

The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, except with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an essential part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.

Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?

You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.

Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end. Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .

Miko: You would stand between me and this evil murderer? Hinjo: I'll stand between any two murderers I wish, thanks.

Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.' 

My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.

Ralph's (and virtually all other) grocery stores provide customers with "frequent-buyer" or "Club member" cards that entitle holders (Group B) discounts not provided customers without cards (Group A), on the argument that people who tend to buy frequently (and/or buy in large quantities) have good reason to comparison shop and to obtain the frequent-buyer cards: they can prorate their search costs over a large number of purchases.11

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

with loyalty oaths waving as weapons in the hands of the know-nothing right, the values of liberal education seemed to hang in the balance in 1952.

Anyway, there were no bigger fans in town than Chet and Bub Dawson. (Chet was a diehard K-State fan. He'd claim: "If KU was playin' Russia, I'd root for Russia.")

that the concept of a loyal opposition did not exist in China and that Chiang's system of balancing off a variety of competing opportunists would not survive the introduction of western democracy with its free-for-all popular participation, particularly when one of the competing forces would be a dynamic, proliferating, disciplined organization determined to destroy that system and seize power.

like maintaining the grounds of a castle when the knight, fallen in battle, will never be returning