faithful quotes

  • A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus 6:16.

  • His lord said unto him,Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will maketheerulerover many things: enter thou intothejoy of thy lord.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 25:21.

  • He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in 116 much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke16:10.

  • Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation 2:10.

  • And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation19:11.

  • Translations, like wives, are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive.

    - (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie Campbell
      The Poetry Review,  Jun/ Jul.

  • I have forgot much,Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee,Cynara! in my fashion.

    - Ernest Dowson
      Verses,'Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae'.

  • I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things asthey have mirrored themselves inmy mind.

    - George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
      Adam Bede, ch.17.

  • O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      Marmion, canto 5, stanza12,'Lochinvar'.

  • A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle-class unit.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Moderation'.

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