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Heart Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is…
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which…
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
- He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
- Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
- There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years…
- Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
- Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
- White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
- She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride,…
- Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
- What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
- Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
- If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
- But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead…
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin