A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
