Quotes About Loyalty

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.

That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.

because a man who is everybody's friend really has no friends at all.

Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?" The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.

I knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.

As he listened to her, David wondered again how Jonathan could have betrayed this girl. He must have been so angry and so sad, and that anger and sadness had consumed him.

She was merely doing what all young girls did, or what those who understood the nature of the balance of power between the sexes generally did. The boy wanted her, but as soon as she gave herself to Bobby unconditionally, she would cede control of the relationship to him. Better to force him to prove his loyalty to her before she surrendered herself fully.

She might suspect it, but I haven't met a mother yet who'd admit her child was out where the buses don't run, not without a fight." "But Mother must have signed off on Vincent Garronne

He'd eat it, though, and not just because he was hungry. He'd have eaten it even if Hayley Conyer had force-fed him caviar and foie gras during their meeting. He'd eat it because his wife had prepared it for him.

A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy. Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

He wavered suddenly, doubted doubts. He looked at his big beloved.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

Christians must have understood, then, that to proclaim Jesus as Son of God was deliberately denying Caesar his highest title and that to announce Jesus as Lord and Savior was calculated treason.

And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.

Poor heretics there be, Which think to establish dangerous constancy, But I have told them, 'Since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

In friendship false, implacable in hate,Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Where'e're I go, my Soul shall stay with thee: 'Tis but my Shadow I take away...