Quotes About Loyalty

The old dog barks backward without getting up.I can remember when he was a pup.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

There's people who'd expect you to take a bullet for them and they don't bother rememb'ring yuh name.

Strike had not been able to guard against warm feelings for Robin, who had stuck by him when he was at his lowest ebb and helped him turn his fortunes around; nor, having normal eyesight, could he escape the fact that she was a very good-looking woman.

But he was her best friend. This admission, held at bay for so long, caused an almost painful twist in Robin's heart, not least because she knew it would be impossible ever to tell Strike so.

If I've taken you for granted," said Strike, "I'm sorry. You're the best I've got." "Oh, for fuck's sake, Strike," said Robin, abandoning the pretense that she wasn't crying as she snorted back tears.

he inwardly acknowledged the irony that, had Ilsa not been so keen to act as midwife to a romantic relationship between himself and Robin, he might now have been sitting in Nick and Ilsa's flat in Octavia Road, enjoying a laugh with two of his old friends and indeed with Robin herself, whose company had never yet palled on him, through the many long hours they had worked together.

Are we tryina stop this wedding, Bunsen?" "' Course not," said Strike, pulling out another cigarette. "I was invited. I'm a friend. A guest." "You sacked 'er," said Shanker. "Which ain't a mark of friendship where I come from." Strike refrained from pointing out that Shanker knew hardly anyone who had ever had a job.

Just wondered if you were up for a pint. Could bring your Robin along, so Penny's got someone to talk to. Unless, I dunno, the fucking Queen's got a job for you." "Well, she has, but I told her the waiting list's full.

If you need a reason to keep going right now, you should hold onto the fact that you're going to be the star witness at this fucker's trial, and if you need a reason to live beyond that, you ought to remember that you were the one Edie called when she believed she was facing death, because she still trusted you with the thing that mattered to her more than anything else.

But he was her best friend.

Now she hesitated, wondering whether she dare do what she wanted . . . but surely, if they were best friends, it was all right?

Let's go, Cormoran," said Robin. She took his arm, and to her great relief and surprise he came along meekly. It reminded her of leading the enormous Clydesdale her uncle had kept on his farm.

Those who live by the mob must be prepared to die by the mob.

mine onely faithfull frend In heauy plight and sad perplexitie; Whereof I sorie, yet my selfe did bend, Him to recomfort with my companie. Edmund Spenser The

Jasper always said, "Tory faithful likes bastards or buffoons", and that he was neither one nor the other.

His local's the White Horse in East Ham. Think he's a Hammers fan.' 'Could be worse,' said Barclay, who was speaking quietly, as he had just got the teething baby to sleep. 'Could be Chelsea.

becos he fucks with people's heads. He's a control freak. he doesn't like anyone having relationships that don't involve him. Either you're a suck up like Hartella or you end up getting kicked out. Ive only lasted this long because he needs me

Jesus,' said Robin, hurrying over to them, and finding nothing else to say she repeated, 'Jesus!' 'He was definitely on our side an hour ago,' said Strike.

Are you all right, Robin?' 'Yes, I promise I am.' She hesitated, then said, almost defiantly, 'Cormoran's been great.

I still mean the thing I said to you at the end. I always will.

Jack said, 'The only friends we don't spare--who do not escape our scrutiny--are our lovers and those who become our enemies.

The higher the station of an individual within any organization, the greater the tendency to hew to the company line

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.