Quotes About Loyalty

As we see in Josephus, the phrase means, basically, "Give up your agendas and trust me for mine.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

a friend is a second self

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

The reward of friendship is friendship itself.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

So let this be the first and sacred law of friendship: seek only the good from friends, do only good for the sake of friends - and don't wait to be asked! Be always attentive! Banish hesitation! Be ready to give advice freely! Take seriously the good advice of friends. Be ready to offer it openly, even forcefully, if the occasion demands - and also be ready to follow when it's been offered.

Das also ist keine Freundschaft, dass, wenn der eine die Wahrheit nicht hören will, der andere zum Lügen bereit ist.

This is all that I had to say about friendship; but I exhort you both so to esteem virtue (without which friendship cannot exist), that, excepting virtue, you will think nothing more excellent than friendship.

El cariño es muy traicionero. La justicia tiene sus exigencias, pero el cariño pugna por ella

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. —GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

friendship was always contingent.

A Sister, dipped in blood

Do you think anyone will believe it?" Aunt Elizabeth asked. "They will believe whatever is in the best interests of Ardua Hall," I said firmly. "Which is the same as their own best interests.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

Why were the bad people doing that? Because of Money. Money was invisible, like Fuck. They thought that Money was their helper; they thought he was a better helper than Fuck. But they were wrong about that. Money was not their helper. Money goes away just when you need it. But Fuck is very loyal.