Fidelity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

34 Fidelity Quotes
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“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“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.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
Socrates Quotes
“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
“Sometimes party loyalty asks too much”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes
“Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart”
Bible Quotes
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton Quotes
“Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success”
James Parton Quotes
“A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained”
James Madison Quotes
“No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
“I never will desert Mr. Micawber.”
Charles Dickens Quotes
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XII)
“Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is She you seek!”
William James Linton Quotes
Source: Iphigenia at Aulis
“So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 896)
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 336)
“Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 83)
“Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Agamemnon (287)
“Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Agamemnon (934)
“O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at V, i)
“You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at II, i)
“To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes
Source: The Promise of May (act II), a song
“To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.”
Bill Vaughan Quotes
Source: Rules and Lessons (st. 8)
“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 Quotes
“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.”
Sacha Guitry Quotes
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes