Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

My honor is my loyalty.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

I have been the last to sign this treaty; I will be the last to break it.

I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!

After I got divorced, I said to myself, I will never, ever get married again. It was in cement. I went through a really rough twenty-five years, but it happened again. I fell in love. I told her, Baby, I don't want a prenuptial agreement. This is it. Everyone told me I was nuts. Well, my new wife and I are married six years and we get along great. You can make anything work if you're both givers.

A bet is a bet and I always keep my word in the bet what I do.

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.