Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 259 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
Volume III, chapter II, section 99.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Source: The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“I heard, fear-stricken and amazed,
My speech tongue-tied, my hair upraised.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
“I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I'm through.”
Wartime Prayers
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
Context: Because you cannot walk with the holy,
If you're just a halfway decent man.
But I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
With a genius marketing plan.I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
Even a little drop would do.
I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I'm through.
“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”
Variant: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Source: Hamlet
