Quotes About Loyalty

It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

You will not give away a lady's secret?

People are like that—not quite bad or quite good. I don't suppose I'm particularly straight myself—I have been because there hasn't been any temptation to be otherwise. But what I have got is plenty of courage and I'm loyal!

Of course she did not like the police," said Marcus. "Nobody likes the police. I do not like the police. But I have to stand well with them because of my hotel.

But I came to it at last through pursuing the rule I have just mentioned. And I was forced to recognize this: That every army and every navy and every police force has a certain number of traitors within its ranks, much as we hate to admit the idea.

A man tells to his mistress what he does not always tell to his wife.

Women, Mademoiselle, are generous. If they can render a service to one who has rendered a service to them, they will do it. I was generous once to you, Mademoiselle. When I might have spoken, I held my tongue.

Thank you, mon ami, I should be delighted to do so. You include Hastings in your invitation, I hope? Japp grinned. What do you think? Where the master goes, there the dog follows...

There is nothing so inhuman as the mask of the good servant.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically.

Loyalty to a memory? I believe the present matters, not the past. The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms; a forced perspective.

I've no particular loyalty to Mrs. Leidner," said Miss Johnson dryly. There was indeed a sharp and acid tone in her voice.

Tampoco creo, por mi parte, que esté yo dispuesto a hacer tal cosa. Tuppence y yo no hemos llegado todavía a ese extremo. Los asuntos los emprendemos y los acabamos juntos. Al decir aquello tenía fija en la mente una frase pronunciada hacia el final de la Primera Guerra Mundial: «Una aventura común». Así había sido su vida con Tuppence y así sería siempre… «Una aventura común…»

Shall I neglect you a little?' suggested Tommy. 'Take other women about to night clubs. That sort of thing.' 'Useless,' said Tuppence. 'You would only meet me there with other men. And I should know perfectly well that you didn't care for the other women, whereas you would never be quite sure that I didn't care for the other men. Women are so much more thorough.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."—BUDDHA "Mean girls suck."—AISHA TYLER

In matters of both film and literature I owe much to my brother's discernment. I took special care to see every film my brother recommended. As far back as elementary school I walked all the way to Asakusa to see a movie he had said was good.

But there's people I care about! And this time around, I'm not gonna just stand by and let them all get hurt!

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.