Quotes by Leigh Hunt

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

“Stolen kisses are always sweetest”

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

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”

“If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating”

“Jenny kissd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say Im weary, say Im sad, Say that health and wealth have missd me, Say Im growing old, but add, Jenny kissd m”

“Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner”

“The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.”

“Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.”

Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds...

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 on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heavens making.

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

Danger for dangers sake is senseless.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

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 to come not past the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful the labor of the day is gone.

Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

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 that in. Say Im weary say Im sad Say that health and wealth have missed me Say Im growing old but add Jenny kissed me.