Quotes from Leigh Hunt

Green little vaulter in the sunny grass.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

There lived a knight, when knighthood was in flow'r,Who charmed alike the tilt-yard and the bower.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers

Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds...

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

And as we mean to be very powerful writers, as well as every thing else that is desirable, power is never seen to so much advantage as when it goes about a thing carelessly; you like to see a light horseman, who seems as if he could abolish you with a passing cut, and not a great heavy fellow, who looks as if he should tumble down in case of missing you, or a little red staring busy body, who would be obliged to wield his sword two-handed, and kill himself first with exertion.

Dream for a moment's space of care and strife, Wake, stare, and smile, and that is human Life.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

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.