Quotes About Loyalty

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell a soul.' 'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.

Yes, I like that—loyalty, I mean. It's out of fashion nowadays. She's an odd character, that girl—proud, reserved, stubborn, and terribly warm-hearted underneath, I fancy.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

For whom will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children.

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.

Let me tell you this, Hastings. She would never forgive me if I let Alfred Inglethorp, her husband, be arrested now—when a word from me could save him!

You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game

Qué tontas somos las mujeres! Siempre lo he pensado. Supongo que ahora dormiré con su retrato debajo de la almohada y soñaré toda la noche con él. Es terrible ver que una no es fiel a sus principio.

O maid most dear, I am not here. I have no place, no part, No dwelling more by sea nor shore, But only in thy heart.

To dear Peter, most faithful of friends and dearest of companions, a dog in a thousand

But there are three people, madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father Confessor, to her hairdresser and to her private detective – if she trusts him.

M. Poirot,' she said somewhat breathlessly, 'Can I speak to you alone?' 'Milady, Captain Hastings is as my other self. You can speak before him as though he were a thing of no account, not there at all. Be seated, I pray you.

What I do realise is that women must stick together -- one should, in an emergency, stand by one's own sex.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.