Quote

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

Leigh Hunt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leigh Hunt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1784
Born: October 19
Died: 1859
Died: August 28
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Southgate
London
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Bishops
Thee
Dear
Trust
Become
Chant
Every
Cupid
Love
Bishop
Life
Nun

More quotes by Leigh Hunt

Image
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
Image
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this with it she is triumphant.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
Image
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
Leigh Hunt
Image
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
Image
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
Leigh Hunt
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 are cheerful now.
Leigh Hunt
Image
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
Leigh Hunt
Image
A dog can have a friend he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates he offends, and is pardoned he stands by you in adversity he is a good fellow.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
Leigh Hunt
Image
There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Leigh Hunt
Image
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.
Leigh Hunt
Image
An author is like a baker it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
Leigh Hunt
Image
This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
Leigh Hunt
Image
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate others, because we are humane many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
Leigh Hunt