“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
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Harpo Marx (1888–1964) American comedian
Comment on the musical Abie's Irish Rose
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Marx Brothers p. 297
“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).
“The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake”
Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician
"How My Heart Behaves"
The Reminder (2007)
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart… converted it into a tomb.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.”
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions
Source: Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome
“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
“Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha
Pt. XX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)