Quotes About Loyalty

Hey," I shoot back, "you can talk trash about me, but lay off my Tater Tots!

They agreed it was wrong to throw the stick, but insisted that Chase couldn't have predicted it would result in serious injury. Ha! The real reason was that Chase was the town sports hero—and the son of the last town sports hero. Chase's dad had a lot of admirers on that board. And my family didn't.

Maybe it's simpler than that: If the biggest jerks form a club, everything starts to fall apart when one of them isn't quite so jerky anymore.

We are more than merely Lucian, Janus, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Madrigal. We are all Cahills, and we are under attack.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

For two nights running he had slept in his clothes on the floor of my bedroom at the Golden Eagle; nor had I tried to move him. I knew from experience that when Luther Martin decided to sleep on the floor (or in a cupboard—he was unnaturally partial to cupboards), it was pointless to protest.

When will my country die for me?

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity…

It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?

There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.

The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.' 'I don't remember that.' 'The history books gloss it over.

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations… I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

friendship cannot stand humiliation.

It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent

One starts promiscuous and ends like one's grandfather, faithful to one woman.

Philipot was one of the initiates what a triumph that would represent for Papa Doc as he dragged his country down.

O ódio parece mexer com as mesmas glândulas que o amor: produz até as mesmas ações. Se não nos tivessem ensinado a interpretar a história da Paixão, será que seríamos capazes de dizer, julgando apenas pelas ações, se foi o ciumento Judas ou o covarde Pedro quem amou a Cristo?

It was as if she were accumulating evidence that she had friends like other people.