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Famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”
“And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.”
“If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?”
“Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!”
“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.”
“Two human loves make one divine.”
“Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.”
“Whoever lives true life, will love true love.”
“Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!”
“I worked with patience which means almost power.”
“In your patience ye are strong.”
“He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.”
“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.”
“The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.”
“Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.”
“Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.”
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
“Books succeed; and lives fail.”
“He lives most life whoever breathes most air.”