Leigh Hunt Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Pleasure, Exquisite

  Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving 'a glorious batch of 'Examiners", in 'The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt' (1862) vol. 2, p. 122

• "Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

  Leigh Hunt

  Inspirational, Book, Satisfaction

  "Literary Criticism".

• The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Littles, Moments

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.170

• The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

  Leigh Hunt

  Drinking, Wine, Pleasure

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