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Heart Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
- The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
- There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.…
- What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
- We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
- A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
- Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have…
- The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the…
- Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
- William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!"…
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