Quotes About Loyalty

Chese now, quod she, oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous by cause of me, Or in som oother place, may wel be. Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.

A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life.

You go away,' she answered, 'you Tom-fool! There's no come-up-and-kiss-me here for you. I love another and why shouldn't I too?

The Book says, 'Whilst that you keep your counsel in your heart, you keep it in your prison, and, when you disclose your counsel unto any person, he holds you in his prison.' And, therefore, it is better to hide your counsel in your heart, than entreat him to whom you have revealed your secret to keep it close and still. For Seneca says, 'If it be so that you can not keep your own counsel, how can you then ask any person to keep your counsel hidden?

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

Now let us turn again to January, who, in the garden with his fair May, sang full merrier than the popinjay, "I love you best, and always shall, and I will love no other one.

Los amigos que un hombre hace en la prosperidad creo que le convertirán en enemigos en la adversidad

A knowing wife if she is worth her salt Can always prove her husband is at fault, And even though the fellow may have heard Some story told him by a little bird She knows enough to prove the bird is crazy And get her maid to witness she's a daisy

Speak we now of wicked counsel, for he who gives wicked counsel is a traitor. He deceives the one who trusted in him, as Achitophel did unto Absalom. But, nevertheless, his wicked counsel is first against himself. For, as says the Wise Man, "Every deceitful liar has this property in himself: that he who would harm another man, he harms himself first.

A man's no cuckold if he has no wife.

Upon my word, I tell you faithfully Through life and after death you are my queen; For with my death the whole truth shall be seen. Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly; Their beauty shakes me who was once serene; Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.

Take heed, you bear in mind the piety you owe unto your country and unto your fellow countrymen, whose slaughter by the treachery of the Payneham shall be unto your disgrace everlasting. Unless you press hardily forward to defend them. Fight therefore for your country, and if it be that death overtake you, suffer it willingly for your country's sake. For death itself is victory, and a healing unto the soul.

But Hengist, hearing that Vortimer was dead, raised an army of not less than three hundred thousand men, and fitting out a fleet returned with them to Britain.

Even so, Churchill's path was well-nigh unique in deserting one party for another and then deserting back again.

on 31 May 1904 Churchill 'crossed the floor': he entered the Chamber, walked towards the Speaker's Chair, bowed, and then turned right instead of left to sit on the Opposition benches, from which he would savagely attack the party he had just deserted. For the Tories he was now 'the Blenheim rat', and it did look as though he was leaving a sinking ship.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Jacques is the kind of guy, if his house was burning in the night, most people in the Budayeen would write him a postcard and drop it in the mail to warn him.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

The Word of God does not say that we can't be wealthy or have cash; it only says we cannot allow the pursuit of money to become a priority over serving God.

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

Sports fans eat shit.