Fidelity Quotes - Page 2

• Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

  Grover Cleveland

  Country, Presidential, Watches

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, People, Chemistry

  "High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

  John Dryden

  Noble

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.437

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• There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Friendship, Dog, Cat

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• With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Strength, Sorrow, Endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.221

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• The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Historical, Fiction

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• Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Infidelity, Signals, Given

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• And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

  Pete Wentz

  Inspirational, Moving On, Loyalty

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• 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

  Sydney Smith

  Loyalty, People, Imagination

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• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (7), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

  Ellen Key

  Liberty, Duty, Observation

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "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

  Love, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

  Alexander Pope

  Loyalty, Dog, Silly

  Alexander Pope (1737). “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends”, p.53

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• 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.

  Rachel Hunter

  Believe, Whales, Killers

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• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loyalty, Mind, Might

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Blessing, Thinking, Love Relationship

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Choices, Vices

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1833, 谷月社

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• Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

  Seneca the Younger

  Overcoming

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 287,

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• Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets
  His signet on my brow,
  And dims my sunken eye, forgets,
  The heart he could not bow;--
  Where love, that cannot perish, grows
  For one, Alas! that little knows
  How love may sometimes last;
  Like sunshine wasting in the skies
  When clouds are overcast.

  Rufus Dawes

  Heart, Eye, Sunshine

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• I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, High Fidelity, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
  And knows no disappointment.

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Suffering, Faithfulness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

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• Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Pain

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Roots, Consecration, Steadfastness

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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