"Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?"
"Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Even if they end up together, which I highly doubtgiven the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter.
Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that.
And when he leaves her, I'll be there.
However long it takes, I'll still be there for her.
Waiting. "
— Melissa de la Cruz (Revelations)

"I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

"the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia."
— Ally Carter (Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover)

"If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring v. 1)

"'You think I'm a fool?' demanded Harry.
'No, I think you're like James,' said Lupin, 'who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

""Such loyalty is admirable, of course," said Scrimgeour.."but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone."
"He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him" said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.
"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "
— Agatha Christie (Peril at End House)

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
— Confucius

"If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)

"Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. "
— David Crockett

"To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs. "
— Karl Kraus

"When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere.
Sam Spade"
— Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon)

"Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized...I shall insist upon it that I am still a Jackson man, but General Jackson is not; he has become a Van Buren man.
"
— Davey Crockett

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
— Haniel Long

"If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.
If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!"
— John Boyd

"I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient discovery was now mine to make: to leave is to make nothing less than a mortal action. The suspicion came to me for the fist time that they were figures of my dreaming, like the loved dead: my mother and all these vanished boys. And after Mama's cremation I could not rid myself of the notion that she had been placed in the furnace of memory even when alive and, by extension, that one's dealings with others, ostensibly vital, at a certain point become dealings with the dead."
— O'Neill Joseph (Netherland)

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
— Martin Luther

"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
— Thomas Jefferson

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
— Edward R. Murrow

"Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him."
— Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)