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Set hard heart against hard hap.
2. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
3. What the eye sees not the heart rues not.
4. Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
5. Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh.
6. Faint heart never won fair lady.
7. A light belly, heavy heart.
8. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
9. At court there are many hands, but few hearts.
10. Cold hand, a warm heart.
11. Cold hands, warm heart.
12. Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
13. In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.
14. It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep fire on one.
15. Mouth and heart are wide apart.
16. Necessity unites hearts.
17. Repentance is the heart’s medicine.
18. The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he knows it by heart.
19. The drunken mouth reveals the heart’s secrets.
20. What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
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Expand your vocabulary with these English idioms and sayings featuring the word ‘heart’.
to wear your heart on your sleeve
A person who wears their heart on their sleeve (or who pins their heart to their sleeve) is very open with their emotions, and doesn’t try to hide them. When they fall in love, they make their feelings known to everyone around them.
to have a change of heart
When someone has a change of heart, it means they have decided to do something completely different to what they originally intended to do.
hard hearted
Hard hearted people are unsympathetic and sometimes cruel. They put their own needs first and lack empathy for other people. Another word sometimes used to describe hard hearted individuals is heartless.
a hearty breakfast
A hearty breakfast is a nourishing, substantial and very filling meal eaten first thing in the morning, such as a full English breakfast of sausage, eggs, bacon, toast and beans.
to take heart
To take heart is to look on the bright side of things when faced with a bad situation, and have faith that all will turn out fine.
to have one’s heart in the right place
Someone who has their heart in the right place is a good person who means well, even though they may annoy us or we may disagree with their opinions from time to time.
to have your heart broken
If someone you love or are emotionally attached to ends their relationship with you, then you may end up heartbroken, or with a broken heart.
a heavy heart
To have a heavy heart is to be sad or unhappy about something. When we need to give someone bad news, we do so with a heavy heart.
Idioms that refer to what is the fanciful seat of our emotions as well as the factual core of our circulatory system are understandably numerous. Here’s a list of phrases and expressions that include heart and, for the most part, pertain to human feelings.
1. a big heart: said of someone kind and loving
2. after my own heart: said of someone with similar preferences or values
3. a heart of gold: see “a big heart”
4. a heart of stone: said of someone without sympathy
5. all heart: see “a big heart”; sometimes used sarcastically to mean the opposite
6. at heart: basically
7. bare (one’s) heart: share one’s feelings or thoughts
8. bleeding heart: said of someone who is conspicuously or excessively generous
9. break (one’s) heart: cause someone emotional distress
10. by heart: from memory
11–13. capture/steal/win (one’s) heart: make someone fall in love with one
14–16. close/dear/near to (one’s) heart: loved or valued by someone
17. cross my heart: said as an oath to assert one’s honesty
18. didn’t have the heart: said when one cannot summon the will to do something hurtful
19. do (one’s) heart good: said about something that will be beneficial to someone
20. eat your heart out: said mockingly to someone expressing the desire for them to suffer; usually facetious
21. faint of heart: lacking courage
22–23. find a way into/to (one’s) heart: cause someone to fall in love with one
24. find it in (one’s) heart: have the compassion or courage to do something
25. follow (one’s) heart: do what one loves rather than what is expected of one
26. from the heart: with sincerity
27–28. gladden the/(one’s) heart: make someone happy or gratified
29. harden (one’s) heart: become callous
30. have (one’s) heart set on: be obsessed with obtaining
31. have (one’s) (best) interests at heart: be doing something for someone else’s benefit
32. heart goes out to: said in regard to feeling sympathy for someone
33. heart in (one’s) mouth: said of someone who has strong emotions about someone or something
34. heart is in the right place: said of someone well intentioned
35. heart of the matter: essence
36. hearts and minds: said in reference to persuading rather than compelling
37. heart’s desire: what one wishes deeply for
38. heart skips a beat: said of someone excited, frightened, or surprised
39. heavy heart: sadness
40–41. from the bottom/depths of (one’s) heart: profoundly
42. in (one’s) heart of hearts: if one’s true feelings or thoughts were known
43. know (one’s) heart: be aware of one’s true feelings
44. lose heart: become discouraged
45–46. matters/affairs of the heart: said of something pertaining to a love affair
47. melt (one’s) heart: cause someone to experience uncontrollable emotions
48. nearly gave (one) a heart attack: caused someone to feel anxiety or fear
49. (one’s) heart bleeds for: one is sympathetic
50. (one’s) heart is knocking: said of someone excited or nervous
51. (one’s) heart is not in: one does not feel a commitment to or an interest in
52. (one’s) heart leaps: one is excited
53. (one’s) heart melts: see “melt someone’s heart”
54. (one’s) heart sinks: one becomes discouraged
55. open (one’s) heart: show generosity or kindness
56–57. out of the goodness/kindness of (one’s) heart: because of generosity or goodwill
58. pour (one’s) heart/soul out: see “bare (one’s) heart”
59. put (one’s) heart into: do something with conviction or enthusiasm
60. sick at heart: discouraged
61–62. strike fear into (one’s) heart/into the heart of (one): cause someone to be afraid
63. take heart: be encouraged
64. take (something) to heart: be affected by something
65. to (one’s) heart’s content: to the extent one desires
66. warm (one’s)/the cockles of (one’s) heart: cause someone to feel positive emotion
67. wear (one’s) heart on (one’s) sleeve: openly show one’s emotions
68. with a sinking heart: said of someone who becomes discouraged or hopeless
69. with all (one’s) heart: with great enthusiasm
70. young at heart: youthful
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Our hearts are quite the persistent little devices. Just pumping away, they keep us alive physically and emotionally, even when we think life is too much to bear. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful quotes about the heart.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin Luther
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
John O’Donohue
The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Alfred Nobel
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Sharon Salzberg
You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you’re living a false life.
Eric Mabius
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Gloria Stuart
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
John Bevere
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it’s yours to have.
Gloria Estefan
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Ella Maillart
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
Don’t worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
W. C. Fields
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine
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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
―
The Little Prince
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
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Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina
“Believe in Your Heart
Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
―
Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
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Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
―
Leigh Bardugo,
Six of Crows
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?”
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Jodi Picoult,
Nineteen Minutes
“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
―
Robert Marley
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”
―
Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
―
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
―
Blaise Pascal
“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you’re trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you’re afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can’t run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience—you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don’t live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
―
Alysha Speer
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
―
Kahlil Gibran
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you, — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
―
Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre
“I have not broken your heart — you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
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Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
―
Ted Hughes,
Letters of Ted Hughes
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
―
Augustine of Hippo,
Confessions
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
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Rumi
“Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.”
―
Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
―
Markus Zusak,
The Book Thief
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn’t live for very long without a heart.”
―
Jodi Picoult
“Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.
«Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
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Sarah J. Maas,
A Court of Thorns and Roses
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
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Ray Bradbury,
Fahrenheit 451
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
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Markus Zusak,
The Book Thief