Quote

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

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
Self
Belong
Great
Acceptance
Greatness
Sacrifice
However
Stage
History
Annals
Women
Dignified

More quotes by Leigh Hunt

Image
Fishes do not roar they cannot express any sound of suffering and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
Leigh Hunt
Image
There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Leigh Hunt
Image
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
Leigh Hunt
Image
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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
Image
There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
Leigh Hunt
Image
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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
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
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
Leigh Hunt
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, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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
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 I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me!
Leigh Hunt