Quote

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

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
Hair
Dead
Though
Seems
Life

More quotes by 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
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.
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
Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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
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
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
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
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
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
This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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
Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?
Leigh Hunt
Image
Improvement is nature.
Leigh Hunt
Image
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt