Heart Quotes

"The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless"

Moliere, Playwright

"The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Only do what your heart tells you"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"I wear my heart on my sleeve"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee"

Robert Herrick, Poet

"Fashion breaks my heart"

Kanye West, Musician

"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"

George Sand, Novelist

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have"

Alice Walker, Author

"Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier"

John Coleman, Businessman

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never"

Marguerite Gardiner, Writer

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart"

George Sand, Novelist

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion"

Paul Simon, Musician

"But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will"

James Thomson, Musician

"You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame"

John Lyly, Writer

"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"

Jean Paul, Author

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