Top 80 Leigh Hunt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

— Leigh Hunt

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2. “Patience and gentleness is power.”

— Leigh Hunt

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

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4. “Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.”

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5. “Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.”

— Leigh Hunt

6. “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

7. “Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”

— Leigh Hunt

8. “Colors are the smiles of nature.”

— Leigh Hunt

9. “Poetry is the breath of beauty.”

— Leigh Hunt

10. “Improvement is nature.”

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11. “Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.”

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12. “It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.”

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13. “Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.”

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14. “Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.”

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15. “God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.”

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

— Leigh Hunt

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

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18. “May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.”

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19. “The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves...”

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20. “Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.”

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21. “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

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

— Leigh Hunt

23. “The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.”

— Leigh Hunt

24. “Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.”

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25. “Night’s deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.”

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26. “Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.”

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27. “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

28. “The beautiful attracts the beautiful.”

— Leigh Hunt

29. “It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.”

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30. “Danger for danger’s sake is senseless.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love’s dropp’d eyelids and a kiss, – Such our breath and blueness is.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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 have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone.”

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35. “I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.”

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

37. “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

38. “Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that’s heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev’n the bees lag at the summoning brass.”

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42. “A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.”

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43. “Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.”

— Leigh Hunt

44. “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.”

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

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46. “Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.”

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47. “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

48. “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.”

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49. “Write me as one who loves his fellow men.”

— Leigh Hunt

50. “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.”

— Leigh Hunt