Quotes about loyalty

“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. You should put guards around the women.”

“And who will guard the guards?”

You can buy a man with gold, but only blood and steel will keep him true.

There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.

The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved.

No promise was as solemn as one sworn to the dead.

"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe. Are you a man of the Night's Watch?"

"Yes, but–"

"There is no but. You are, or you are not."

The only way to keep people loyal is to make sure they fear you more than the enemy.

King is only a word, but fealty, loyalty, service ... those I must have.

"Ah, but when the queen proclaims one king and the Hand another, whose peace do they protect?" Lord Petyr flicked at the dagger with his finger, setting it spinning in place. When at last it slowed to a stop, the blade pointed at Littlefinger. "Why, there's your answer. They follow the man who pays them."

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

No one had ever come for him... not his mom, not his dad, not his brother, not a dozen people who he'd called his friends back in his town on the coast, not a one of them had ever come looking for him, trying to get him back. They'd just let him go. That was the difference. But this castoff cripple-hand civvy girl had come all the way in. Ocho scowled down at her limp body. See what loyalty gets you? See?

“Morality is an axis that doesn’t interest us,” Mraize said calmly. “Only loyalty and power are relevant, for morality is as ephemeral as the changing weather. It depends upon the angle from which you view it.”