“Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.”
Act I, sc. v.
The Duenna (1775)
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan 58
Irish-British politician, playwright and writer 1751–1816Related quotes
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Context: But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
“1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.”
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Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Robert Burns
“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
On the Death of Sheridan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Original: (it) Non ho mai scelto la vita facile, ho sempre scelto ciò che sentivo nel cuore, perché io vivo di sentimenti... di ciò che provo, non di opportunismo, non di falsità... ma di cose semplici, vere.
Source: prevale.net
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”