John Lyly Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Past, Mind

• The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Ambassadors, Tongue

• Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Wine, Men

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press

• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

• If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

  John Lyly

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  'If all the earth were paper white' in R. Warwick Bond (ed.) 'The Complete Works' (1902) vol. 3, p. 452

• Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

  John Lyly

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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