Leigh Hunt Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Appreciation, Giving, Return

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.314

• A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wall, Hair, Giving

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.146

• It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

  Leigh Hunt

  Giving, House, Everyday

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