Robert Browning Quotes

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once... view

By: Robert Browning

My sun sets to rise again... view

By: Robert Browning

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!.. view

By: Robert Browning

Oh, to be in England now that April's there... view

By: Robert Browning

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do... view

By: Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs.. view

By: Robert Browning

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls... view

By: Robert Browning

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake... view

By: Robert Browning

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked... view

By: Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew... view

By: Robert Browning

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?.. view

By: Robert Browning

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought... view

By: Robert Browning

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice... view

By: Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there... view

By: Robert Browning

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!.. view

By: Robert Browning

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!.. view

By: Robert Browning

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!.. view

By: Robert Browning

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all.. view

By: Robert Browning

That's the wise thrush.. view

By: Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb... view

By: Robert Browning

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee... view

By: Robert Browning

Faultless to a fault... view

By: Robert Browning

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again... view

By: Robert Browning

A minute's success pays the failure of years... view

By: Robert Browning

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?.. view

By: Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay... view

By: Robert Browning

Love is energy of life... view

By: Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?.. view

By: Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet... view

By: Robert Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be... view

By: Robert Browning

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!.. view

By: Robert Browning

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on... view

By: Robert Browning

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God... view

By: Robert Browning

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time... view

By: Robert Browning

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents... view

By: Robert Browning

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top... view

By: Robert Browning