The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Fidelity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.— BARTON BOOTH — Song.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in
France. Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.— SIMON DACH — Annie of Tharaw. Longfellow's trans. L. 7.
Barbaris ex fortunâ pendet fides. The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune.— LIVY — Annales. XXVIII. 17.
Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt. Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. C.— SENECA — Agamemnon. 934.
Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides. Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.— SENECA — Agamemnon. CCLXXXVII.
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