Best Leigh Hunt Quotes
- There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. Every Sort
- 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… Admirer
- We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no… Anglers
- Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. All
- The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Advice
- Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! Brook
- Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. Beauty
- 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… Been
- Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair. Becoming
- The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. Cheerful
- Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the… Abstract
- It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is… Bed
- Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When… Amidst
- An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all… All
- We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still,… All
- 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 our… Blue
- Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. Clash
- Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls… Attain
- Stolen kisses are always sweetest. Always Sweetest
- Colors are the smiles of nature. Color
- Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. Best Love
- Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was… Born
- Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put… Add
- Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. Antiquity
- If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Conversation