Quotes About Loyalty

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Deny them [the colonies] this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Brush those tears from your eyes And try and realize That from now on I'll always be true. I went away But I didn't mean to stay And I will regret it until my dying day.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

If ever I said, in grief or pride,I tired of honest things, I lied.

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

Y como Rita no es tonta aplica aquella de más vale cabeza de ratón que cola de león, y en consecuencia cría éste ratón en el que las empleadas y sus sobrinas somos un cuerpo más o menos obediente o, por lo menos, susceptibles a sus censura.

Y queda en mí el mandato inexorable que dictan las fidelidades eternas. Cuando Independiente gana un campeonato —al fin y al cabo, Dios y sus milagros evidentemente existen— lo primero que hago, en la cancha o en mi casa, es levantar los brazos y los ojos hacia el cielo, abrazándolo a mi viejo a través de todos los rigores del destino, y por encima de todas las traiciones de la muerte.

Y si el precio de serlo es que jamás nadie lo sepa, que sea. Que sea ese el precio. Que todo esto permanezca en el más absoluto silencio. Que nadie sepa, nunca, ni ahora mientras caminamos en esta procesión callada, ni dentro de muchos años cuando sea una viejita memoriosa, Manuel, querido mío, lo mucho que te amé.

Uno no puede andar por la vida reprobando a sus rivales y disculpando a sus amigos por el solo hecho de serlo.

Honi soit qui mal y pense [Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it].

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.