Young men's love, then, lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it."
~
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
She had found her heart at last. Never having known its worth till now, she had never known the worth of his.
~
Barnaby Rudge
by
Charles Dickens
It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
~
Barnaby Rudge
by
Charles Dickens
Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.
~
Cleopatra
by
H. Rider Haggard
Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through that dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart—its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.
~
Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by
L. Frank Baum
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.
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Jacob's Room
by
Virginia Woolf
You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.
~
The Warden
by
Anthony Trollope
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!
~
The Warden
by
Anthony Trollope