Quotes About Loyalty

Fusesem mult? vreme de partea celor puternici. Acum eram învin?i. A?a c?, în mod obligatoriu, în locul abilit??ii de înving?tori preferam victimele fidelit??ii.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

Eisenhower and Patton, old friends and figures crucial to the Allies' upcoming success, conferred over yet another gaffe on Patton's part that could have cost him his command. Patton's head is on Ike's shoulder in gratitude, but the scene is rescued from being completely maudlin by Eisenhower's internal question as to whether Patton wears his ever-present helmet to bed.

Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.

Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel

I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.

Betrayal is beautiful.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon the thread. —C. K. Chesterton, via Evelyn Waugh

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Everyone hates the mob, but everyone belongs to it

He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me....

Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.

I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you.

Todellinen vihollinen löytyy poikkeuksetta linjojen takaa, omasta selustasta, ei koskaan edestä eikä myöskään sisältä. Jokainen ammattisotilas tietää tämän, ja kaikissa armeijoissa kaikkina aikoina on esiintynyt kiusausta jättää muodollinen vihollinen sikseen ja kääntyä ympäri selvittämään tilit todellisen vihollisen kanssa kerta kaikkiaan!

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

She also had this friend named The Asp, who whenever she was really in a tight spot would just show up and cut everybody's head off.

It was so hard to decide where loyalties should lie: with oneself or with one's community?

Perhaps when two people are exactly in accord, and always happy when together and lonely when apart, they ought not to let anything in the world stand between them.

The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.