ROBERT BROWNING QUOTES II

English poet (1812-1889)

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.

ROBERT BROWNING

Cenciaja


Truth is within ourselves.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!

ROBERT BROWNING

"Fra Lippo Lippi"


Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts!

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


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

ROBERT BROWNING

"Andrea del Sarto"


For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear, -- believe the aged friend --
Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

ROBERT BROWNING

A Death in the Desert


Out on the foolish phrase, but there's a hard rhyming without it.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, February 26, 1845


I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, February 26, 1845


The past is gained, secure, and on record.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1, 1845


Shun death, is my advice.

ROBERT BROWNING

"Arcades Ambo"


Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.

ROBERT BROWNING

"Sordello"


Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


What Youth deemed crystal,
Age finds out was dew.

ROBERT BROWNING

"Jochanan Hakkadosh"


Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.

ROBERT BROWNING

The Inn Album


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

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus


What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

ROBERT BROWNING

"The Flight of the Duchess"


I may travel, perhaps. So you have got to like society, and would enjoy it, you think? For me, I always hated it--have put up with it these six or seven years past, lest by foregoing it I should let some unknown good escape me, in the true time of it, and only discover my fault when too late; and now that I have done most of what is to be done, any lodge in a garden of cucumbers for me!

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 12, 1845


I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, February 11, 1845


For an instructed eye loves to see where the brush has dipped twice in lustrous colour, has lain insistingly along a favorite outline, dwelt lovingly in a grand shadow--for these "too muches" for the everybody's picture, are so many helps to the making out the real painter's picture as he had it in his brain.

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, January 13, 1845


All service ranks the same with God,--
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we: there is no last nor first.

ROBERT BROWNING

Pippa Passes