Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning towards error.But most of all they resemble us in their precarious hold on life.

-Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra
  'Books'.

On the contrary, the mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations. The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.

-Constantinus
  Within the Tides, preface.

Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'An  Arundel Tomb'.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

-Poe, EdgarAllan
  'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

There is no reason why the infield should not try to put the batter off his stride at the critical moment, by neatly- timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

-Shaw, George Bernard
Alluding to baseball. Quoted in ColinJarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).