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Quotes About Loyalty

Life is a series of dogs.
~ George Carlin
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
~ George Eliot
Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else. I should never be quite happy if I thought he was unhappy for the loss of me. It has taken such deep root in me—my gratitude to him for always loving me best, and minding so much if I hurt myself, from the time when we were very little. I cannot imagine any new feeling coming to make that weaker.
~ George Eliot
When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.
~ George Eliot
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
~ George Eliot
I think I shall trusten till I die.
~ George Eliot
We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.
~ George Eliot
Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
~ George Eliot
But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.
~ George Eliot
Then I shall tell you. It is because you are to me the chief woman in the world - the throned lady whose colours I carry between my heart and my armour.
~ George Eliot
His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent.
~ George Eliot
But he would never lose sight of her: he would watch over her—if he gave up everything else in life he would watch over her, and she should know that she had one slave in the world.
~ George Eliot
Why should I not marry the man who loves me, if I love him?" said Catherine. To her the effort was something like the leap of a woman from the deck into the lifeboat. "It
~ George Eliot
Si les choses n'ont pas, pour vous et moi, tourné aussi mal qu'elles l'auraient pu, c'est en grande partie grâce à ces êtres qui ont vécu loyalement une existence discrète et reposent dans des tombes délaissées.
~ George Eliot
Trust to me, my boy, trust to me. I've got no wife to worm it out of me and then run out and cackle it in everybody's hearing. If you trust a man, let him be a bachelor—let him be a bachelor.
~ George Eliot
And remember that I am unchangeably yours: yours - not with selfish wishes - but with a devotion that excludes such wishes.
~ George Eliot
Who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rests in unvisited tombs.
~ George Eliot
You're my best friend. Why should I be happy to see you go?
~ George Hagen
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
~ Jennifer Beals
If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?
~ Morning Star
Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
~ Helen Fisher
I think my main two songs are 'FWU' and 'Get Away.' 'FWU' made a cool point because it came out right after Chris Brown's 'Loyal' came out. I combated it with 'FWU,' a song that basically says, 'These women are loyal.'
~ Kehlani
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
~ Francesco Totti