“Talent should minister to genius.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
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Famous Robert Browning Quotes
“One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
“Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
Source: MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life
Source: MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life
“Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
Source: Robert Browning
“No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
“Truth is truth howe'er it strike.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
Source: Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday
“A man in armor is his armor's slave.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.”
Source: Poetical Works of Robert Browning: A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and easter-day. Men and women
“Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“Imperfection means perfection hid.”
Source: Robert Browning
“The world and life's too big to pass for a dream”
Source: MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life
“Praise is deeper than the lips”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“I do what many dream of, all their lives”
Source: MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life
“At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
“Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.”
“Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
“The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Fifine at the fair; Red cotton night-cap country
“Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.”
“A man in armour is his armour's slave.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
“As if true pride Were not also humble!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations
“There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.”
“Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.”
“Women hate a debt as men a gift.”
Source: Men and women
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.”
Source: My Last Duchess and Other Poems
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
Source: Browning: Poems
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.”
Source: Robert Browning
“I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861