Quotes About Loyalty

I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worse place can I beg in your love,-- And yet a place of high respect with me,-- Than to be used as you use your dog?

My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.

Besides, I had to keep you alive," Ewan said, thinking to make light of the situation and thereby erase some of the shadows from Neil's eyes. "We couldn't have the only virgin in the group dying before he bedded a woman." As Ewan had wanted, Neil turned and scowled at him. "I've bedded women. I just haven't performed one act." "It made for a good rally cry. Protect the virgin!

Anybody bugs you, anybody at all, I'll rip off both his arms. You got me?" She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet.

I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy.

Your life ain't much if you don't believe somebody got your back out here.

Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son were expected to land at any time, while from St Albans, Edward sent word that Harry of Lancaster was to be considered a prisoner of state. At that, John Stockton, the Mayor of London, contracted a diplomatic virus and took to his bed.

She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

What is forgiveness worth without trust?

Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things that were God's, all the while praying they'd never have to choose between the two.

John, watching in dismay, saw his great chance slipping through his fingers, and he swung around to demand of his father, "Papa, does this mean Richard has bested you and Aquitaine is lost?" Eleanor winced, Geoffrey rolled his eyes, and Henry gave his youngest a look John had never gotten from him before. "My life would have been much more peaceful if I'd had only daughters," he snapped. "As for Aquitaine, it is yours if you can take it.

For treason he knew to be the most contagious of afflictions and innocence no guarantee of immunity.

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Here I was, rushing off to save my little brother from pirates, only to find that he fancies being a pirate himself!

Ranulf had seen fever scramble a man's wits, but so far, Robert remained conscious and coherent. After he'd been shriven of his earthly sins, he'd made his will, provided for alms to the poor, asked to be buried at his Bristol priory, and sought promises from his liegemen that they'd be as loyal to his son as they'd been to him. He was dying, Ranulf thought, as he'd lived, competently and quietly and with dignity, and Holy God Above, what would they do without him?

Stephen reached out to her then, entwined her fingers in his. It was not difficult for me. You must understand that. For me, it was an easy choice, for it was the only choice. I know, she said again, and coming into his arms she clung tightly, resting her cheek against his chest as she sought to comprehend the ultimate irony, she who had no irony at all in her soul, that the qualities she most loved in Stephen were the very ones that were crippling his kingship.

He was too astute a politician, too ambitious a Prince, to confuse friendship with statecraft.

Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son.

Yes, but it can be no condescension for the son of a count to serve the son of a king.

A man worthy of Eleanor of Aquitaine ought not to be susceptible to fluttering lashes, flattery, and bedazzled adoration.

We can go for weeks without talking to each other, but we never have to explain why we haven't been in touch. We simply pick up where we left off. That's true friendship.

The Buddha actually described at some length what he meant by being a good friend in the world. He talked about a good friend as someone who is constant in our times of happiness and also in our times of adversity or unhappiness. A friend will not forsake us when we are in trouble nor rejoice in our misfortune. The Buddha described a true friend as being a helper, someone who will protect us when we are unable to take care of ourselves, who will be a refuge to us when we are afraid.

My family had chosen the army as my career, and war is the army's stock in trade.