Quotes About Loyalty

I libri, loro non ti abbandonano mai. Tu sicuramente li abbandoni di tanto in tanto, i libri, magari li tradisci anche, loro invece non ti voltano mai le spalle: nel più completo silenzio e con immensa umiltà, loro ti aspettano sullo scaffale.

Once, when I was seven or eight, my mother said to me, as we sat on the last seat but one on the bus to the clinic or the shoe shop, that while it was true that books could change with the years just as much as people could, the difference was that whereas people would always drop you when they could no longer get any advantage or pleasure or interest or at least a good feeling from you, a book would never abandon you.

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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang

I am crying now, sobbing and laughing at the same time, seeing but not understanding this loyalty to my mother.

Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

Of course, you'll defend Jay, says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do. But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.

My friends—a Spanish painter, a guitarist, the tenor who has been staying with Joaquin, a poet, a homosexual, a Roumanian painter, an American composer, etc. etc.—they are all pained, injured, that I should defend Lawrence. Una mujer tan ideal, que lastima!

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

it was not so much friends I loved as friendship (pp 15 - The Immoralist)

L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.

Feminists try hard to fight for women at the same time maintaining special loyalties to subgroups of men. How could we not?

So, unless you've embezzled money outright or murdered someone and want me to hide the body, I won't be getting in any deeper than I already am.

But this was Saratoga, which I love even during the bad times;

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The

God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.

It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

The Emperor protects.' 'So does ferrocrete, ma'am.' Celestine: The Living Saint

Don't mention it," I say. "That's what friends are for. Come on! To the flying fried-egg car!

Our books are friends for life.

What have I done? If I have killed my beloved lord, I will never forgive myself! And if he lives — neither will he!