Leigh Hunt

Jenny kissed me when we met,Jenny kissed me.

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Keeping along it their eternal stands.

— Leigh Hunt

and then we wake,Our own calm journey on for human sake.

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.

— Leigh Hunt

Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

— Leigh Hunt

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

— Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

— Leigh Hunt

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt