Loyalty Quotes

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”

“That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal.”

“Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.”

“A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”

“My heart is ever at your service.”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me”

“Such is my love, to thee I so belong,That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.”

“In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.”

“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.”

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.”

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

“Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.”

“O, where is loyalty?If it be banished from the frosty head,Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?”

“What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

“By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.”

“Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii”

“He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

“We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.”

“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.”

“You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;But yet you draw not iron, for my heartIs true as steel: leave you your power to draw,And I shall have no power to follow you.”

“As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).”

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party”