Leigh Hunt Quotes


"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Conversation, Eating, Loss, Support)

"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Conversation, Eating, Support)

"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Books, Old, Satisfaction)

"Stolen kisses are always sweetest."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Kisses)

"Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: People, Tears)

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Happiness, Health)

"The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Church, Safety)

"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Man)

"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: People, Famous, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Imagination, Measure, World)

"Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant."
- Leigh Hunt
"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Worth)

"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: History, Sacrifice, Self, Self sacrifice, Woman)