Fidelity

(198 votes)   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
1792-1822, British Poet

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(160 votes)   Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(102 votes)   Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(90 votes)   What a fuss people make about fidelity! 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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(80 votes)   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. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(68 votes)   Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

James Parton

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(63 votes)   Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

Ida R. Wylie

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(59 votes)   I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.

Ernest Dowson
1867-1900, British Poet

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(59 votes)   Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.

W. S. Gilbert
1836-1911, British Librettist

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