Quotes About Loyalty

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

I would have done just about anything for him.

What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they'll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.

even if you make them, they'll turn on you, rob you, betray you, and take off with someone else.

We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

He got away with those affairs because he was never inattentive to Ellie. Some of the other guys around here should take a lesson from that. What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they'll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.

When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love.

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloak. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward.

Why must I see him brought low like this when it had taken so many decades to cement my love for him forever?

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloack. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward. page 139

I thought of how much I loved Louis, and had ever since I became Lestat's fledgling. I thought of how deeply I depended upon him, and what I would do for him. It was the love of Louis which had at times crippled Lestat, and enslaved Armand. Louis need have no consciousness of his own beauty, of his own obvious and natural charm.

I carry the obligation as if she were still with me, as if even now I had to go and spend my hours in her shrine.

I have wrestled with angels and dragons to be with you!

The family was not just the family to them; it was the clan; the nation; the religion; the obsession. I

It was a lie to give him over to the daylight, to companionship other than my own.

Lestat he loved as he always had. Every realm needs a brat prince.

Give men enough time and they will turn on anyone.

You're too clever for your creed, my friend. Forsake it.

He was mine and mine forever. He could do what he pleased.

You know what a liar I am, don't you?" I asked her. "You know how wicked I have been. And you play my game with me, don't you, my Sovereign?

I always understood you. I've always understood Goblin. Are you going to betray all that now?

Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy.

People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so.

Passing on information to a friend was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.