Quotes by Leigh Hunt

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

“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, particu...”

“The hotness of a sex scene lies in the loins of the beholder.”

“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 ...”

“Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.”

“Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.”

“There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.”

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

“Danger for danger's sake is senseless.”

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

“It is a delicious moment certainly that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come not past the limbs are tired enough to render the remai...”

“Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.”

“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 miss...”

“And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.”

“Patience and gentleness is power.”

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

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