Quotes About Loyalty

Su decisión habia sido permanecer en aguas profundas y tenebrosas, lejos de todas las trampas y cebos y traiciones. Mi decisión fué ir allá a buscarlo, mas allá de toda gente. Mas allá de toda gente en el mundo. Ahora estamos solos uno para el otro y así ha sido desde mediodía. Y nadie que venga a valernos, ni a él ni a mí.

You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had afición. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had afición he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.

But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?

Non c'è nessun amico più leale di un libro.

Now the boy was gone and the kitten had grown into an old cat and had outlived the boy. The way he and Boise felt now, he thought, neither one wanted to outlive the other. I don't know how many people and animals have been in love before, he thought. It probably is a very comic situation. But I don't find it comic at all.

Don't forget to tell Pedrico the head is his.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.

It's only orders between us.

If a man liked his friend's painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and it was not polite to criticize them.

You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito.

I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all

he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.

Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

I was his tennis friend.

Pez –dijo en voz alta pero suavemente–, seguiré contigo hasta la muerte.

porque yo guardaba la boca callada cuando algo no me gustaba. Si a una persona le gustaban las pinturas o los escritos de sus amigos, yo lo miraba como algo parecido a lo de la gente que quiere a su familia, y es descortés criticársela. A veces, uno puede pasar mucho tiempo antes de tomar una actitud crítica ante su propia familia, la de sangre o la política.

The people you work with should be either fully trusted or not trusted at all, so one should decide, who deserves to be trusted

Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They

I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you wish and then you will never want any other girls, will you?' She looked at me very happily. 'I'll do what you want and say what you want and then I'll be a great success, won't I?' 'Yes.

I don't care if he kills me, the big son of a bitch,' David said. 'Oh hell. I don't hate him. I love him.