Quote

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

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
People
Cheerful
Serious
Half
Persons
Person
Men

More quotes by Leigh Hunt

Image
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
Leigh Hunt
Image
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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
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
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Patience and gentleness is power.
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
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful not the graceful, but the fantastic not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
Image
A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
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