Chapter HASTE to HEART of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Thomson.—Castle of Indolence, Canto II. Stanza 57.

HEAR.—Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1. (Macbeth to the Apparition.)

HEART.—The honest heart that’s free frae a’
Intended fraud or guile,
However Fortune Kick the ba’,
Has aye some cause to smile.

Burns.—Epi. To Davie, Verse 3.

The heart aye’s the part aye,
That makes us right or wrang.

Ibid.—Verse 5.

HEART.—Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain:
The heart can ne’er a transport know,
That never feels a pain.

Lyttleton.—A Song, A.D. 1732.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper;
for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 2. (Don Pedro in praise of Benedick.)

1. O, Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
2. O throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.)

And nature gave thee, open to distress,
A heart to pity, and a hand to bless.

Churchill.—Prophecy of Famine.

With every pleasing, every prudent part,
Say, what can Chloe want? She wants a heart.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. Line 159.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at; I am not what I am.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago to Roderigo before Brabantio’s house.)

The turnpike road to people’s hearts I find,
Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind.

Dr. Walcot.

Heaven’s sovereign saves all beings but himself,
That hideous sight a naked human heart.

Young.—Night III. Line 226.

O, tiger’s heart, wrapp’d in a woman’s hide!

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act I. Scene 4. (York to Queen Margaret, who had induced Clifford to kill Rutland.)

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 66.