Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are noted for irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. This Robert Browning quotes will motivate you.
Best Robert Browning Quotes
- “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning
- “The best things in life can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and LoveIf you are asking if I’d hurt you, the answer is never.
If you are asking if i love u,the answer is forever.
If you are asking if i want u,the answer is i do.
If you are asking what i value most, the answer is YOUGrow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” ~ Robert Browning -
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” ~ Robert Browning
- “I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne’er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!” ~ Robert Browning
- “To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.” ~ Robert Browning
- “The great mind knows the power of gentleness.” ~ Robert Browning
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“A minute of success pays for years of failure.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” ~ Robert Browning
- “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.” ~ Robert Browning
- “I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” ~ Robert Browning
- “Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.” ~ Robert Browning
- “There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Earth is crammed with heavens.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Love is the energy of life.” ~ Robert Browning
- “As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!” ~ Robert Browning
- “There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Why stay on the earth except to grow.” ~ Robert Browning
- “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!” ~ Robert Browning
- “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!” ~ Robert Browning
- “God is in his Heaven, all’s right with the world.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Good to forgive, Best to forget.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.” ~ Robert Browning
- “What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.” ~ Robert Browning
- “My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.” ~ Robert Browning
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“When is man strong until he feels alone?” ~ Robert Browning
- “If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain” ~ Robert Browning
- “My sun sets to rise again.” ~ Robert Browning
- “You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, is death that makes life live.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.” ~ Robert Browning
- “So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Truth never hurts the teller.” ~ Robert Browning
- “All’s love, yet all’s law.” ~ Robert Browning
- “He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.” ~ Robert Browning
- “I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.” ~ Robert Browning
- “There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.” ~ Robert Browning
- “At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.” ~ Robert Browning
- “There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.” ~ Robert Browning
- “O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.” ~ Robert Browning
- “But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.” ~ Robert Browning
- “I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.” ~ Robert Browning
- “It ‘s wiser being good than bad; It ‘s safer being meek than fierce; It ‘s fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.” ~ Robert Browning
- “Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.” ~ Robert Browning
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“Never brag, never bluster, never blush.” ~ Robert Browning
- “No thought which ever stirred
A human breast should be untold.” ~ Robert Browning - “I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.” ~ Robert Browning
- “God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.” ~ Robert Browning
- “You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o’ercomes doubt.” ~ Robert Browning