In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
~By James L. Buckley ~
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
~By Maimonides ~
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
~By Horace ~
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~By Helen Keller ~
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.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
~By Robert Benchley ~
The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
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.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
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.
~By George Carey ~
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.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
~By Lilli Palmer ~
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.
~By Helen Keller ~
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.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
~By Janet Malcolm ~
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.
~By Joseph Story ~
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
~By Ellen Key ~
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
~By Grace Paley ~
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
~By Eva Longoria ~
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.
~By Alan Parsons ~
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
~By John Fiske ~
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