Famous, cool,
inspirational, funny,
love, life, great and other
quotes from movies,
books, bible and
more

Main Menu

Quotes By Author

Quick Search^(NEW!!)

Find Quote

Calendar

... the degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. Thomas Merton		Monday Feb 23, 2026
		Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969

About James Henry Leigh Hunt

	James Henry Leigh Hunt
	(1784-1859) English Poet, Critic, and Journalist

Popular James Henry Leigh Hunt Quotes

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.

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

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.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Write me as one who loves his fellow-men.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou?' The vision raised its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, 'The names of those who love the Lord.' 'And is mine one?' said Abou. 'Nay not so.' Replied the angel, Abou spoke more low, But clearly still, and said, 'I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.' The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed. And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

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.

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.

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

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts And imaginations.

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...

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Events Related to James Henry Leigh Hunt
No events so far