Fidelity Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Quotations, tags: constancy, faithful, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty
- A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~ Robert Benchley
- An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t. ~ Sacha Guitry
- Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. ~ Ida Ross Wylie
- Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
- Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ~ James Parton
- Fidelity, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy. ~ Sir Walter Scott
- Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ~ Alexander Pope
- I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ~ Grace Paley
- It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspects I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it. ~ Seneca
- It is better to be faithful than famous. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ~ Edmund Burke
- Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ~ Ellen Key
- Nothing is nobler, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. ~ Cicero
- People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect — simply a confession of failures. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. ~ Seneca
- Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. ~ Goethe
- What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. ~ Oscar Wilde
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