He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.
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 said true things, but called them by the wrong names.
Men and Women (1855)
Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
Men and Women (1855)
Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.
Dramatis Personae (1864)
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
Paracelsus (1835)
You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Men and Women (1855)
Pippa Passes (1841)
Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.
The Ring and the Book (1868)
Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.
Paracelsus (1835)
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.