Quotes About Loyalty

For every loyalty, whether to self or community, does impose a blindness, and each love does threaten to blur vision, as few can bear to see truth if it harm that which is dear to us.

He saved me, but you own me.

Que ne peut l'amitié conduite par l'amour?

I so love taking care of alpha warriors.

I'd deal with the devil if it meant keeping Cam safe." "Sometimes the devil is the only option, but best to leave it to those of us who have already sold their souls." Valerie didn't laugh.

But even as she struck the bonds seemed to tighten, with each fresh blow to bind more securely. Mary now clung with every fibre of her sorely distressed and outraged being; with every memory that Stephen stirred; with every passion that Stephen had fostered; with every instinct of loyalty that Stephen had aroused to do battle with Martin.

Reuben grinned and chewed more vigorously than ever; he had the measure of his master's foot to a nicety. The sun felt actually hot, and Hilary, in his heavy tweeds, began to be less inclined for the long walk over stubbly fields. His eye roved for a suitable place to rest, which he finally discovered under a hedge.

And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed; saw a patient endurance that was purely fictitious, and conceived of a loyalty far beyond the limits of Angela's nature.

She'd forgotten how dogs could reach in and grab hold of a person's heart.

Here was one perfect example of why he preferred to work with computers and code. They did what was required of them. They didn't cheat, didn't betray, didn't wake up one morning with a damned tumor that knocked them to their knees.

And for what it's worth," the woman said, her face still red, "we don't think you killed your wife.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...

In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.

Justice is the concern of every loyal subject, for an injustice committed by one who holds the King's commission is in some sense a dishonour to the King's majesty.

Perhaps they assumed that he would have a hard time putting her first. Perhaps they had not understood that for a long time she had come first with him, that for many years she had been his heart's home and his mind's anchor and that fighting to keep her alive was essential to preserving his own soul.

All those people who left me in my adverse times will come back, but this time not as friends but as fans

Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.

For twenty years good old Sami has cut my hair, but from day to day he says less and less. I've had enough of his silence. A barber should tell stories better than the radio.

Umar Hayat's father, Malik Tiwana, provided soldiers to the British for the recapture of Delhi and for combat against the Rani of Jhansi.

In the Punjab of 1857, flattery was realism's sibling.

If one regiment mutinies, the next regiment [should be] so alien that it would be ready to fire into it.

there will be but one feeling throughout the army, a feeling that our prestige is gone, and that feeling will be more dangerous than any other.

Hari Singh Nalwa received four wounds: two from sabres, one from an arrow (which Nalwa pulled out himself), and the fourth from a gunshot. Before dying, he instructed his men not to give out word of his condition.