Quotes About Loyalty

Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn't much of one, but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule he made was never to buy his own drinks. He

But can we trust him?" he said. "Myself I'd trust him to the end of the Earth," said Ford.

Are you suggesting that those men were in my employ? That's exactly what I'm suggesting. I don't know if you noticed but those men were pointing a gun at me. I'm sorry, but if anyone in my employ did that, I'd sack them on the spot.

But can we trust him?' he said. 'Myself, I'd trust him to the end of the Earth,' said Ford. 'Oh yes,' said Arthur, 'and how far's that?' 'About twelve minutes away,' said Ford. 'Come on, I need a drink.

You will see the effects of dark secrets making themselves known-- via their minds and bodies and via the stories your friends...will begin telling you...The only payback for all of this-- for the conversion of their once-young hearts into tar--will be that you will love your friends more, even though they have made you see the universe as an emptier and scarier place...

What was she doing working in a big museum, anyway, when she really should be tucked away in some semidetached house in the suburbs with a pack of squalling brats? Who was this husband she was allegedly so loyal to? Maybe the problem was she was rogering someone on the side already. Yes, that was probably it

Do what? Kill me? Then my blood would be on your hands—more than it already is—as well as that of your four dear friends. Because you, frater, are responsible for all this. You know it. You made me what I am." "I made you nothing." "Well said! Well said!" A dry, almost desiccated laugh came over the tiny speaker. Listening

Jennie never did reject me, however. Oh no. She loved me to the very end. Her love for me was more powerful than anything the Archibalds could undermine.

Moreover, one should so respect a friend's presence that he dare not perform anything shameful or speak any unbecoming word, since any fault so reflects on a friend that the friend not only blushes and grieves inwardly but also reproaches himself with what he sees or hears, as if he had committed the sin himself.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath

Equals make the best friends.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.

We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.