Quotes About Fidelity

What a fuss people make about fidelity!

No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

the people who love only once in their lives are really the 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 failure. Faithfulness!

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

Loyalty is standing on someone's side even if their actions are against your will.

No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments

His wife does not dress for him, only when he has gone away and is no longer in her mind; he sees her in a disheveled negligee, while all through the day he meets women powdered and primped and curled, whose charming knees and inviting frocks and encouraging smiles and aphrodisiac perfumes leave him hovering hourly over the abysses of disloyalty.

Severe penalties were laid upon them for striking their husbands, wives were not allowed to go out in public unveiled, and strict fidelity was exacted of them—though their husbands might have all the concubines they could afford.

Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

Fidelity is a natural extension of trust and honesty;

A man is only as faithful as his options

A man is basically as faithful as his options. That's how faithful a man is, no more, no less.

In denominations where pastors are moved to a different church or churches every few years, issues of mobility and fidelity are complex in other ways. Laypeople may hesitate to make deep, long-term commitments when they don't know what the next leadership change will bring.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

While we are in the realm of comedy, it is worth recalling that one of the best and best-known episodes of the historical sitcom Blackadder, titled 'Ink and Incapability', confronts this very subject. Its fidelity to history is limited (Jane Austen is Johnson's contemporary, and apparently has 'a beard like a rhododendron'), but its representation of the perils of lexicography is just. The

But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. That gnaws away at the night-time hours desperate for a sign and appears at breakfast so self-composed. That longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox,...that longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.

sociedad en que el deber de una eterna fidelidad sólo sirve para originar adulterios y donde las mismas leyes del honor y la continencia extienden necesariamente la corrupción y multiplican los abortos.