Leigh Hunt Quotes

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave. — Leigh Hunt

This garden has a soul, I know its moods. — Leigh Hunt

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles. — Leigh Hunt

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise. — Leigh Hunt

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. — Leigh Hunt

Danger for danger's sake is senseless. — Leigh Hunt

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. — Leigh Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt

Write me as one who loves his fellow men. — Leigh Hunt

You couldn't train a falcon , then expect it not to hunt. — Leigh Bardugo

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them. — Leigh Hunt

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. — Leigh Hunt

The beautiful attracts the beautiful. — Leigh Hunt

One can love any man that is generous. — Leigh Hunt

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. — Leigh Hunt

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair. — Leigh Hunt

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot! — Leigh Hunt

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish. — Leigh Hunt

If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!' — Leigh Hunt

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. — Leigh Hunt

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort. — Leigh Hunt

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain. — Leigh Hunt

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. — Leigh Hunt

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. — Leigh Hunt

Colors are the smiles of nature. — Leigh Hunt

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. — Leigh Hunt

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. — Leigh Hunt

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. — Leigh Hunt

Patience and gentleness is power. — Leigh Hunt

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh? — Leigh Hunt

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. — Leigh Hunt

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. — Leigh Hunt

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples. — Leigh Hunt

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. — Leigh Hunt

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. — Leigh Hunt

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ... — Leigh Hunt

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. — Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. — Leigh Hunt

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart. — Leigh Hunt

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. — Leigh Hunt

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs. — Leigh Hunt

Improvement is nature. — Leigh Hunt

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. — Leigh Hunt

The groundwork of all happiness is health. — Leigh Hunt

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. — Leigh Hunt

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. — Leigh Hunt

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead. — Leigh Hunt

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. — Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. — Leigh Hunt

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much. — Leigh Hunt

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. — Leigh Hunt

Poetry is the breath of beauty. — Leigh Hunt

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. — Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. — Leigh Hunt

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there. — Leigh Hunt

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. — Leigh Hunt

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. — Leigh Hunt

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. — Leigh Hunt

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. — Leigh Hunt

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather. — Leigh Hunt

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. — Leigh Hunt