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Quotes About Loyalty

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
~ Samuel Johnson
Tis plain, that she who, for a kingdom now,Would sacrifice her love, and break her vow,Not out of love, but interest, acts alone,And would, ev'n in my arms, lie thinking of a throne.Dryden'sConquest of Granada.
~ Samuel Johnson
ADRY  (ADRY')   adv.[from a and dry.]Athirst; thirsty; in want of drink. He never told any of them, that he was his humble servant, but his well-wisher; and would rather be thought a malecontent, than drink the king's health when he was not adry.Spect.
~ Samuel Johnson
Depend on it, I will defend this little citadel to the utmost.
~ Samuel Johnson
AFFIDATION  (AFFIDA'TION)  AFFIDATURE  (AFFIDA'TURE)  n.s.[from  affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship
~ Samuel Johnson
ALDERLIEVEST  (ALDERLI'EVEST)   adj. superl.[from ald, alder, old, elder, and lieve, dear, beloved.]Most beloved; which has held the longest possession of the heart. The mutual conference that my mind hath had,By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams,In courtly company, or at my beads,With you, mine alderlievest sovereign;Makes me the bolder to salute my kingWith ruder terms.Shakesp.Henry VI. p.
~ Samuel Johnson
Potrai negarmi di accompagnarti, ma non puoi impedirmi di seguirti.
~ Samuel Johnson
How dreadful, on the contrary, must be her case, who is the occasion of propagating dissention, irreconcilable hatred, and abhorrence between her own relations and those of the man to whom she for life engages herself!
~ Samuel Richardson
O my dear! a fond husband is a surfeiting thing; and yet I believe most women love to be made monkeys of.
~ Samuel Richardson
And is it a crime to acknowlege, that they are so well disposed to a worthy object? A worthy object, I repeat; for that is what will warrant the open heart. What a littleness is there in the custom that compels us to be insincere? And suppose we do not succeed with a first object, shall we cheat a future Lover with the notion that he was the first?
~ Samuel Richardson
Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've got your back, Doc. You can count on it. I would kill them before I let them touch you.
~ Sandra Brown
Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.
~ Sandra Brown
Brynn out of there." The two exchanged a look before Rawlins turned back to him. "Look, Mallett, Wilson and me played your phone game, drove all the way back here and saved you from a couple of cops on the take, only so you could send us to fetch your girlfriend?
~ Sandra Brown
If she commits to something, it's forged in steel.
~ Sandra Brown
He would only ever be home with this woman.
~ Sandra Brown
All Griff had to do was lob a short screen pass over the line into Whitethorn's hands. Or miss him, and get paid a cool two million by the Vista boys. Cowboys lost 14–10.
~ Sandra Brown
I must learn to be obedient. How fortunate I am to have a husband who helps me.
~ Sandra Dallas
I rest my rule on Loyalty, not on Force.
~ Sandra Worth
If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.
~ Santa Teresa de Jesús
I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
You can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.
~ Sara Dessen