Luther Martin 1483-1546

Large Catechism

The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol.

Luther Martin 1483-1546

Large Catechism "The First Commandment"

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Lyly John c.1554-1606

If all the earth were paper white
And all the sea were ink
´Twere not enough for me to write
As my poor heart doth think.

McLeod Fiona 1855-1905

"The Lonely Hunter"

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babinton) 1800-1859

"A Jacobite's Epitaph"

By those white cliffs I never more must see,
By that dear language which I spake like thee,
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

Malory Sir Thomas d.1471

Le Morte D'Arthur

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see
thee; for through thee and me is the flower of things and knights destroyed.

Mary I, Queen (Mary Tudor) 1516-1558

When I am dead and opened, you shall find "Calais" lying in my heart.

Maschwitz Eric 1901-1969

"These Foolish Things Remind Me of You"

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces
An airline ticket to romantic places;
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.

Milton John 1608-1674

Samson Agonistes

...Of such doctrine never was there school,
But the heart of the fool,
And no man therein doctor but himself.

Moore Thomas 1779-1852

"Believe me, if all those endearing young charms"

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turned when he rose.

Parker Dorothy 1893-1967

Where's the man could ease the heart
Like a satin gown?

Pascal Blaise 1623-1662

Pensées

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

The Dunciad

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Porter Cole 1891-1964

My heart belongs to Daddy.

Proverbs and Sayings

Congolese

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

Proverbs and Sayings

German

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Pushkin Alexander 1799-1837

"It's Time"

It's time, my dear, it's time! The heart demands its quittance -
As day flies after day and each bears off its pittance
Withdrawn from living's store and meanwhile you and I
Draw up our plans to live ... And then, why then, we'll die.

Richardson Samuel 1689-1761

Clarissa

Mine is the most plotting heart in the world.

Richardson Samuel 1689-1761

History of Sir Charles Grandison

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence.

Roethke Theodore 1908-1963

"Open House"

My secrets cry aloud.
I have no need for tongue.
My heart keeps open house,
My doors are widely flung.
An epic of the eyes
My love with no disguise.

Rossetti Dante Gabriel 1828-1882

The House of Life "Body's Beauty"

And round his heart one strangling golden hair.

Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712-1778

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Ruskin John 1819-1900

The Two Paths

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Saint-Exupéry Antoine de 1900-1944

Le Petit Prince

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Sarah Ist Duchess of Marlborough 1660-1744

(refusing marriage offer from Duke of Somerset)

If were young and handsome as I was, instead of old and faded as I am, and you could lay the empire of the world at my feet, you should never share the heart and hand that once belonged to John. Duke of Marlborough.

Sartre Jean-Paul 1905-1980

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Schick Béla 1877-1967

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction
it's all or none.

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832

The Lord of the Isles

O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.

Shadwell Thomas 1642-1692

Psyche

Words may be false and full of art,
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Hamlet

It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Hamlet

If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry VI, Part 2

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Julius Caesar

This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
Quite vanquished him: then burst his mighty heart.

Shakeaspeare William 1564-1616

Macbeth

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

The Merchant of Venice
Tell me, where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourishèd ...?

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

John Bull's Other Island

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Adonais

From the contagion of the world's slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.

Sidney Sir Philip 1554-1586

Arcadia

My true love hath my heart and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other giv'n;
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driv'n.

Sidney Sir Philip 1554-1586

Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 1

‘Fool,'said my Muse to me, ‘look in thy heart and write.'

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr

If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Suckling Sir John 1609-1642

‘Love's Offence'

Love is the fart
Of every heart:
It pains a man when ‘tis kept close,
And others doth offend, when ‘tis let loose.

Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909

‘Dolores'

Ah beautiful passionate body
That never has ached with a heart!

Tanfield Elizabeth Lady c.1565-1628

(epitaph for her husband)

Love made me poet,
And this I writ;
My heart did do it,
And not my wit.

Teasdale Sara 1884-1933

Beauty, more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

‘Sir Galahad'

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.

Thomas Dylan 1914-1953

‘Light breaks where no sun shines'

Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides.

Thompson Francis 1859-1907

‘To a Snowflake'

What heart could have thought you?
Past our devisal
(O filigree petal!)
Fashioned so purely,
Fragilely, surely,
From what Paradisal
Imagineless metal,
Too costly for cost?

Thomson James 1834-1882

‘The City of Dreadful Night'