Quotes About Loyalty

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

This for my own part i have more than once been deceived by the person I loved the most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth,but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on.

Man inherits the capacity for loyalty, but not the use to which he shall put it. The persons and causes (if any) to which he shall devote himself are suggested to him, often, indeed, imposed upon him, by education and environment. Nevertheless, they are his by choice, not by hereditary compulsion. And his choice may be bad. He may unselfishly devote himself to what is petty or vile, as he may to what is generous and noble.

I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behavior, drained of emotion and anger.

In a real war, no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

My dears, as long as a man is a minister, adore him; when he falls, help drag him in the gutter.

We think, without fear of being deceived, that married people who have lived twenty years together may sleep in peace without fear of having their love trespassed upon or of incurring the scandal of a lawsuit for criminal conversation.

The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.

Alas! if your wife has not yet kissed the apple of the Serpent, the Serpent stands before her.

Thoughts of adultery do not take possession of the heart of a married woman all at once, like a shot from a pistol.

Let the man whom I deign to love beware how he thinks of anything but loving me!

A husband never loses anything by appearing to believe in the fidelity of his wife, by preserving an air of patience and by keeping silence. Silence especially troubles a woman amazingly.

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

When a woman has no friend of her own sex intimate enough to assist her in proving false to marital love, her maid is a last resource which seldom fails in bringing about the desired result.

The King stands for us all. To die for the King is to die for oneself, for one's family, which, like the kingdom, cannot die.

Épouses nous sommes trahies. Amantes, nous sommes délaissées.

Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

Maybe we should open a bottle of champagne," Maddy said, glaring at the two women. "A toast to keeping secrets . . . where would a family be without 'em?

Lucy, the eldest, said a DiFalco woman couldn't hold onto a man if she had him Krazy Glued to her side. Over the years Rose had come to realize the truth of that statement. In

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.