Amiel Henri Frédéric 1821-1881
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
Anonymous
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Arnold Matthew 1822-1888
The same heart beats in every human breast.
Aurelius Marcus 121-180
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Bacon Francis 1561 - 1626
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Barnes Djuna 1892-1982
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Benét Stephen Vincent 1898-1943
"American Names"
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmédy.
I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
Berlin Irving 1888-1989
Top Hat "Cheek-to-Cheek"
Heaven - I'm in Heaven - And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak;
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek-to-cheek.
The Bible
Old Testament: Proverbs ch.17 v.22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
The Bible
Old Testament: I Samuel ch.13 v.14
A man after his own heart.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Bourdillon F. W. 1852-1921
Among the Flowers "Light"
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
"Peace"
Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;
Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long
peace there
But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
"My Last Duchess"
She had
A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed: she liked whate'er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696
Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle
The people have little intelligence, the great no heart ... if I had to choose I
should have no hesitation: I would be of the people.
Bulwer-Lytton Edward 1803-1873
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Burns Robert 1759-1796
"My Heart's in the Highlands"
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
"So, we'll go no more a-roving"
So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that
lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936
The Defendant
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Clare John 1793-1864
"First Love"
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling place
And can return no more.
Corot Jean Baptiste 1796-1875
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
Davis Bette 1908-1989
The real actor - like any real artist - has a direct line to the collective heart.
De La Mare Walter 1873-1956
Autumn
Sad winds where your voice was;
Tears, tears where my heart was;
And ever with me,
Child, ever with me,
Silence where hope was.
Dickens Charles 1812-1870
Barnaby Rudge
These are strings ... in the human heart that had better not be wibrated.
Dickinson Emily 1830-1886
"The Bustle in a House"
The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon Earth -
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity.
Donne John 1572-1631
"Break of Day"
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
Drayton Michael 1563-1631
Poly-Olbion
That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.
Eiseley Loren 1907-1977
From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you inyour private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ewart Gavin 1916-1995
Love Song
But the heart line on my hand foretold you;
in your army of lovers
I am a private soldier.
Fitzgerald Zelda 1900-1948
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Foster Stephen Collins 1826-1864
"The Old Folks at Home"
Way down upon the Swanee River,
Far, far, away,
There's where my heart is turning ever;
There's where the old folks stay.
Garrick David 1717-1779
"Heart of Oak"
Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men:
We always are ready;
Steady, boys, steady;
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
Gibbon Edward 1737-1794
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Gibson Wilfrid 1878-1962
All Being Well
I read your letter through and through,
And dreamt of all we'd say and do,
Till in my heart the throught of you
Rang like a bell.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Faust
My peace is gone,
My heart is heavy.
Hammerstein II Oscar 1895-1960
Lady Be Good
The last time I saw Paris
Her heart was warm and gay.
Hope Bob
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Housman A.E. 1859-1936
A Shropshire Lad
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
Hume David 1711-1776
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Epicene
Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Joplin Janis 1943-1970
(when Eisenhower's death replaced her in Newsweek)
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In My week.
Joyce James 1882-1941
"Sleep now, O sleep now"
My kiss will give peace now
And quiet to your hear -
Sleep on in peace now,
O you unquiet heart!
Joyce James 1882-1941
Ulysses
He kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
Keats John 1795-1821
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
For ever warm and still to be enjoyed,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
"The Power of the Dog"
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
But when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog tear.
Knowles Mary 1733-1807
(of Samuel Johnson)
He gets at the substance of a book directly; he tears out the heart of it.
La ROCHEFOUCAULD François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Laurence Margaret
Follow your heart, and you perish.
Lespinasse Julie de
The logic of the heart is absurd.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
"The Arrow and the Song"
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
"A Psalm of Life"
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.