Quotes About Loyalty

I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

I tell myself to look away, but the truth is, I don't want to look away. I want to be drawn into his gaze. Which is dumb. And wrong. He belongs to another woman, I remind myself sternly. He likes whiny, shouty, newsreadery-type women.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon.

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

A friend in word is never friend of mine.

Neoptolemus: I am glad to see you and take you as a friend. For one who knows how to show and accept kindness will be a better friend than any possession.

Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders. Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death. Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene

Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?

for I owe a longer allegiance to the dead than to the living:

I need one food: I must not violate Elektra

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

Oed. Must I not fear my mother's marriage-bed?

your own father's hands that served his once bright eyes so well— that made them blind.

Pues así como estoy, me voy a ir. Venid, venid, compañeros los que estáis presentes y ausentes; y con hachas en las manos corred hacia el lugar famoso. Y yo, puesto que mi opinión así ha cambiado, y yo mismo la aprisioné, quiero estar presente para salvarla; pues temo no sea la mejor resolución el vivir observando las leyes establecidas.

Never at my hands will the traitor be honored above the patriot. But whoever proves his loyalty to the state–I'll prize that man in death as well as life.

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing.

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing: I have no use for him. Zeus my witness, Zeus who sees all things

AGAMEMNÔN. Il n'est pas facile à un roi d'être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.

Now he'll tear himself from his native earth, not linger, curse the house with his own curse.

Dear friend, still here? Standing by me, still with a care for me, the blind man?

once he returns, then, then I'll be a traitor if I do not do all the god makes clear.

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