Quotes by Leigh Hunt

• Colors are the smiles of nature.
• If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
• If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
• It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
• Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
• The groundwork of all happiness is health.
• The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
• The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
• There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
• Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
• Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
• Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.