Quotes

Quotes about Heart


Speak gently! 't is a little thing
Dropp'd in the heart's deep well;
The good, the joy, that it may bring
Eternity shall tell.

Miscellaneous

My Book and Heart
Must never part.

Miscellaneous

Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

Aeschylus

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Sophocles

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Terence

Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.

Plutarch

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.

Diogenes Laërtius

Like hearts of oak.

François Rabelaisc

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Vauvenargues (Marquis of)

To arms! to arms! ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe!
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!

Joseph Rouget de L’Isl

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.

Von Münch Bellinghausen

Malebranche would have it that not a soul is left;
We humbly think that there still are hearts.

Edmond Rostand

A man after his own heart.

Old Testament

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Old Testament

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Old Testament

He fashioneth their hearts alike.

Old Testament

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.

Old Testament

My heart is fixed.

Old Testament

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