John Ford (dramatist): Quotes about heart

John Ford (dramatist) was dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

John Ford (dramatist): 66 quotes1 like

“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”

John Ford (dramatist) Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)

“Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.”

John Ford (dramatist)

Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets ([1808] 1854) p. 228.
Criticism

“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”

John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)

“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)