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You’re not a dog, are you, Gary? However, you do have all the characteristics of a dog, Gary. All except loyalty. Snatch 2000 starring Brad Pitt & Vinnie Jones & Jason Statham & Stephen Graham & Alan Ford & Dennis Farina & Adam Fogerty & Mike Reid & Robbie Gee & Lennie James & Jason Flemying & Goldie et al, director Guy Ritchie
But the courts, in ascending authority, solemnly declared that it was in the interests of justice for employers to be able to identify any ‘disloyal’ member of their staff and to sack them. Paul Foot, article ‘Judges Rule Against a Free Press’
My first precept is loyalty: you will be loyal to me because I will be loyal to you. You are my girls. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie II starring Geraldine McEwan & Amanda Kirby & Lynsey Baxter & Vivienne Ross et al, Brodie to class, ITV 1978
Once loyalty’s broken, baby, you can never get it back. Gang Related 1997 starring James Belushi & Tupac Shakur & Dennis Quaid & Lela Rochon & James Earl Jones & David Paymer & Wendy Crewson et al, director Jim Kouf, Frank
Before you can be loyal to another you must be loyal to yourself. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e18: Profit and Loss, Bashir to Garak
For of men it may generally be affirmed, that they are thankless, fickle, false studious to avoid danger, greedy of gain, devoted to you while you are able to confer benefits upon them, and ready, as I said before, while danger is distant, to shed their blood, and sacrifice their property, their lives, and their children for you; but in the hour of need they turn against you. Niccolo Machiavelli
O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty? William Shakespeare, The First Part of the Contention II Henry VI V i 164, King Henry
The service and loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth I Iv 22, Macbeth
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
What kind of sadistic test of loyalty is that to ask someone to kill his or her own child! Julia Sweeney, Letting Go of God
Their own duty is loyalty to us. The rest they can learn as they go along. The Borgias s3e4: The Banquet of Chestnuts, Rodrigo to Cesare, Showtime 2013
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions. Samuel Adams, essay The Advertiser 1748, ‘Loyalty and Sedition’
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. Woodrow Wilson, address 13 July 1916
For it is, in practice, simply not possible to adopt such a critical attitude towards an employer and at the same time provide good service. It is not simply that one is unlikely to be able to meet the many demands of service at the higher levels while one’s attentions are being diverted by such matters; more fundamentally, a butler who is forever attempting to formulate his own ‘strong opinions’ on his employer’s affairs is bound to lack one quality essential in all good professionals: namely, loyalty. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day p200
‘Without loyalty the gang is nothing.’ Inside the Gangsters' Code: 18th Street, Sharkey, Discovery 2014
Loyalty – a higher virtue than majesty sometimes. King Richard and the Crusaders aka Talisman 1954 starring Rex Harrison & Virginia Mayo & George Sanders & Laurence Harvey & Robert Douglas & Michael Pate & Paul Raymond & Lester Matthews & Antony Eustrel et al, director David Butler, King to Scot
Everybody has a loyalty somewhere. Tinker, Taylor, Solider, Spy s1e4, George, BBC 1979
I shall repay the loyalty of the people with my life. Salvador Allende, cited The Battle of Chile II, 1975
You wish to know where my true loyalties lie? Not with any king or queen but with the people – the people who suffer under despots and prosper under unjust rule – the people whose hearts you aim to win. Game of Thrones s7e2: Stormborn, Lord Varys, HBO 2017
If we get any indication that your loyalty isn’t solid, arrangements will be made. Do you understand that? Ozark s2e5: Game Day, cartel brief to Marty, Netflix 2017
You came all this way to talk about a man who put me in prison? He was the key witness for the prosecution. And how ironic. The MP so tough on crime – he testified against his own brother. I expected loyalty. The Heavy 2009 starring Christopher Lee & Vinnie Jones & Gary Stretch & Stephen Rea & Shannyn Sossamon & Lee Ryan & Adrian Paul & Jean Marsh & Sadie Frost et al, director Marcus Warren, son to father
Customer loyalty … what does it mean? The Office US s9e12: Customer Loyalty, Dwight