The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.383, 20 May.

She had a heart as big as Waterloo Station.

-Agate,James
Of Marie Lloyd.  Attributed.

Thought shall be the harder, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might lessens.

-Anonymous
c.1000  The Battle of Maldon (translated by R K Gordon).

In youth open your mind, And let all learning in; Words the head does not shape Are worthless, out and in. Words wit has not salted,No nearer the heart than the lip, Are nothing more than wind, A puppy's insolent yelp.

-Anonymous
c.1500  'To a Boy'. Translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan ('Frank O'Connor').

O he's a ranting roving blade! O he's a brisk and a bonnie lad! Betide what may, my heart isglad To see my lad wi' his white cockade.

-Anonymous
c 'The White Cockade'.

Et toi mon coeur pourquoi bats-tu Comme un guetteur me¤  lancolique J'observe la nuit et la mort. And you my heart why do you pound Like some melancholy watchman I watch the night and death.

-Kostrowitzki
  Le Guetteur me¤ l ancolique, pre¤  face.

Do¤ n de esta¤   la patria, amigo? Ni en el corazo¤  n ni en la saliva. Whereisthe country, my friend? It isnot intheheart or in the saliva.

-Arguedas,Jose¤   Mar|¤  a
El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo ('The Upper and the Lower Fox'), ch.3.

I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.

-Armstrong, Neil A(lden)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth 31 On the cool flowery lap of earth.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Of  William Wordsworth. Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Memorial Verses,  April1850', l.47^9.

Onlyöbut this is rareö When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafened ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caressedö A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'The Buried Life', l.77^87.

What helps it now, that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mocked the smart, Through Europe to the Aetolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own?

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.133^8.

The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.138^40.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Sir, No Man's Enemy'.

And none will hear the postman's knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Night Mail', written to accompany a documentary by the Post Office Film Unit.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The second-best is a formal order, The dance's pattern; dance while you can.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq', in Letter from Iceland (with Louis MacNeice).

   In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of  W.B.Yeats', pt.3.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place.

-Babel, Isaac
  Guy de Maupassant.

Dans ces grandes crises, le coeur se brise ou se bronze. In times of crisis, the heart either breaks or boldens.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Maison du chat-qui-pelote.

But had I wist, before I kiss'd, That love had been sae ill to win. I'd lock'd my heart in a case o'gowd, And pinn'd it wi'a siller pin.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', stanza 4.

L'amour a son instinct, il sait trouver le chemin du coeur comme le plus faible insecte marche a'   sa fleur avec une irre¤  sistible volonte¤   qui ne s'e¤  pouvante de rien. Love has its own instinct. It knows how to find the road to the heart just as the weakest insect moves towarditsflowerbyanirresistiblewillwhichfearsnothing.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Femme de trente ans.