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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

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190 quotes

Make no more giants, God!
But elevate the race at once!

Have they fancies — slow, perchance,
Not at their beck, which indistinctly glance
Until by song each floating part be linked
To each, and all grow palpable, distinct?
He pondered this.

Sordello (1840)

The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.

Paracelsus (1835)

They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,—
Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.

Pippa Passes (1841)

But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Jove strikes the Titans down
Not when they set about their mountain-piling
But when another rock would crown the work.

Paracelsus (1835)

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
With the dream of, meet death with.

God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.

Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Men and Women (1855)

When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

Men and Women (1855)

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

Men and Women (1855)

The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842)

That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.

Andrea del Sarto (1855)

Deeds let escape are never to be done.

Sordello (1840)

Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven—
All's right with the world!

Pippa Passes (1841)

Be there, for once and all,
Severed great minds from small,
Announced to each his station in the Past!

Dramatis Personae (1864)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.