To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
Robert Browning Quotes
1812–1889 England
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Also known as: Browning, Robert
190 quotes
He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Paracelsus (1835)
This could but have happened once,—
And we missed it, lost it forever.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The curious crime, the fine
Felicity and flower of wickedness.
The Ring and the Book (1868)
There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
Paracelsus (1835)
Over my head his arm he flung
Against the world.
Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842)
Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.
Sordello (1840)
Other heights in other lives, God willing.
One Word More (1855)
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
Men and Women (1855)
Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing.
Men and Women (1855)
Go practise if you please
With men and women: leave a child alone
For Christ's particular love's sake!
The Ring and the Book (1868)
The place is silent and aware;
It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes,
But that is its own affair.
Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,
Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.
Paracelsus (1835)
Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
Paracelsus (1835)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
You think, because you're old and obese,
To find in the furry civic robe ease?
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.