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A wise and an understanding heart.—Bible, 1 Kings 3:12
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There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.—Bible, Proverbs 19:21
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?—Bible, Jeremiah 17:9
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The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;—
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.—CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Evening Solace.
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The heart of man is the place the Devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.—BULWER-LYTTON, What Will He Do With It
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.—BULWER-LYTTON, The Disowned
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.—COLERIDGE, Motto to Poems Written in Later Life
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!—HAWTHORNE, The House of the Seven Gables
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The heart's dead
Are never buried.—SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN, Summer Day
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The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.—KIPLING, Recessional
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Cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?—CHARLES LAMB, Eliana
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The beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.—R. M. MILNES, The Brookside
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When true hearts lie wither'd
And fond ones are flown
Oh, who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?—THOMAS MOORE, The Last Rose of Summer
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Ah! little they think who delight in her strains,
How the heart of the Minstrel is breaking.—THOMAS MOORE, She is Far From the Land
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.—POE, The Masque of the Red Death
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He that gives his heart will not deny his money.—Proverb
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Hearts may agree, though heads differ.—Proverb
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When the heart is a-fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.—Proverb
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Deep lies the heart's language.—Proverb
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Every heart hath its own ache.—Proverb
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It was written: "In the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written: "In the breaking of thy heart."—RUSKIN
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I'll warrant him heart-whole.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
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And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,
If it be made of penetrable stuff.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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Now cracks a noble heart.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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A habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
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He bath a heart as sound as a bell.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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Ferdinand: Here's my hand.
Miranda: And mine, with my heart in't.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
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My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.—WILLIAM SHARP, The Lonely Hunter (Source of title of novel by Carson McCullers.)
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My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, The Bargain
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There is a bonfire in my heart but no one comes to warm himself at
it.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, The Bargain
