| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
|---|
| Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room |  |
| " . . . there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it . . ." | Charles Dickens | The Battle of Life | |
| If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
| "Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two." | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | |
| Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | |
| "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated. . . . " | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | |
| "Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart. . . ." | Charles Dickens | Hard Times | |
| You don't know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Professor at the Breakfast Table | |
| To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | |
| . . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| "It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur." | Gilbert Parker | The Battle Of The Strong | |
| Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. | Gilbert Parker | The Translation of a Savage | |
| "These words are razors to my wounded heart." | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | |
"Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is." | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | |
| You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. | Anthony Trollope | The Warden | |
| They say that faint heart never won fair lady; and it is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! | Anthony Trollope | The Warden | |
| There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. | J. Sheridan Le Fanu | Uncle Silas | |
| The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | |
| "But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken." | Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband | |
It is thyself, mine own self's better part;
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart;
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim,
My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim. | William Shakespeare | The Comedy of Errors | |
