#Fidelity Quotes

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“That is my home of love: if I have ranged,Like him that travels I return again,Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.”

“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”

“I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both”

“JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.”

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.”

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”

“Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.”

“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”

“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”

“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”

“Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.”

“The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.”

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

“The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.”

“A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.”

“It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.”

“'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.”

“To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.”

“Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.”

“The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.”

“I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”