127 Quotes by Leigh Hunt

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

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.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

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

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

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.

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.