Quote#Beauty
Where beauty moves, and wit delights and signs of kindness bind me
Quote byThomas Ford · 1580–1648
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Since first I saw your face", st. 3, in Music of Sundry Kinds (1607).
English (original)
Where beauty moves, and wit delights and signs of kindness bind me There, O there! where’er I go I’ll leave my heart behind me.
— Thomas Ford
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