Quote

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

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
Poetic
Seats
Trees
Poetry
Nook
Tree
Brook
Justice
Sparkling
Brooks
Seat

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
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
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.
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
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
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
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.
Leigh Hunt
Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
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
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
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
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Leigh Hunt