Quotes About Loyalty

He was accompanied by Agrippa and another early friend, Quintus Salvidienus Rufus

He placed confidence in a senior Parthian defector, who was in fact spying for his king.

That said, he did not want Antony destroyed

could envision a time when the two men might need to combine against the Senate and Brutus and Cassius

Whoever makes his journey to a tyrant's court Becomes his slave, although he went there a free man.

The blow was devastating. The two men had been friends from boyhood

And if you can't trust family, who in this five-cent back-alley butt-fuck of a world can you trust?

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.

God save the King!" Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile. "God save 'em both!" he whispered.

Phroso made no comment on this; and the moment I had said it I heard a voice below, a voice I knew very well. 'What's the ladder here for, my friend?' it asked. 'It enables one to ascend or descend, my lord,' answered Kortes's grave voice, without the least touch of irony.

What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women's secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

Somehow, she was always there when you needed her. The trouble was, she was also there when you didn't.

He saved my life. In a way, I loved him. I love you too, Alex. You are so very much like him. I'm glad that you're here with me now.

He had discovered the secret of war, the moment when soldiers cast aside their fear and become part of a machine that is so much bigger than themselves. For only then are they prepared to die.

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

At the moment, there's just the four of us who know that your wife is a cold-hearted, manipulative bitch. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep it that way. What do you think?

I had only my good faith and my entire heart to give to her.

warned him against your play. I said that it was too peculiar for a modern audience and that nobody would understand what you were trying to get at. Is it a comedy? Is it a thriller? What is it, exactly? But he had complete faith in you, and now you turn up with your detective friend and cast aspersions on a man who is absolutely blameless and wouldn't dream of hurting anyone.

The two of them were used to speaking quietly. They knew their place in the house and it was their first duty never to be noticed unless they were needed, never to draw attention to themselves.

She thought the sun shone out of his you-know-where! And she'd been his housekeeper for years and years. Keeper of the keys! She cooked for him, cleaned for him, gave half her life to him. I'm sure he'd have wanted to be there for the send-off.

John had a soft spot for Yassen," he said. "He really liked him. What do you make of that? The spy and the assassin. A bit of an odd couple, I'd say…" And more than ten years later, Yassen had sacrificed himself for Alex, repaying the debt of an old friendship.