Fidelity Quotes

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. (Robert Benchley)
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. View quote
Alexander Pope
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. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. View quote
Helen Keller
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. View quote
George Washington
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. View quote
Thomas Merton
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. View quote
Joseph Conrad
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. (George Carey)
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. View quote
Edmund Burke
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. View quote
Isaac Barrow
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. View quote
George Santayana
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it. View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. View quote
Jonathan Sacks
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cézanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity. View quote
Clement Greenberg
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. View quote
Hannah Arendt
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity - please observe, a plodding mediocrity - for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation. (Fred Brooks)
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. View quote
Carla Bruni
Fidelity is a gift not a requirement. View quote
Lilli Palmer
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. View quote
Janet Malcolm
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is. View quote
Rachel Hunter