Quotes with faithful

  • The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
  • Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]
  • Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
  • 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.
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  • Horace A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Mother Teresa Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • William Shakespeare Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir Richard Steele A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Sir Walter Scott A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Sacha Guitry An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Ida R. Wylie 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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  • André Gide Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Edward Gibbon Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • James Baldwin Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Mother Teresa Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Shana Alexander Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Jeremy Taylor God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is better to be faithful than famous.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Brigitte Bardot It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Paine 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.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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