Quote

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

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
Race
Proof
Whatever
Noble
Wells
Remain
Book
Creatures
Well
Capable
Proofs
Believe
Circumstances
Stimulate
Mankind
Eternally
Books
Believing

More quotes by 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
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
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
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
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.
Leigh Hunt
Image
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
Leigh Hunt
Image
An author is like a baker it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
Leigh Hunt
Image
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
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
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Leigh Hunt
Image
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
Leigh Hunt
Image
Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
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
Write me as one who loves his fellow men.
Leigh Hunt
Image
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
Image
There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Leigh Hunt