Quote

Patience and gentleness is power.

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
Gentleness
Patience
Influence
Power

More quotes by Leigh Hunt

Image
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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
Image
O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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
There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
Leigh Hunt
Image
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
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
The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
Leigh Hunt
Image
A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
Leigh Hunt
Image
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
Leigh Hunt
Image
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
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