Top 280 Robert Browning Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”

— Robert Browning

2. “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

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3. “God is in his Heaven, all’s right with the world.”

— Robert Browning

4. “A minute of success pays for years of failure.”

— Robert Browning

5. “Love is the energy of life.”

— Robert Browning

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6. “My sun sets to rise again.”

— Robert Browning

7. “Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”

— Robert Browning

8. “Good to forgive, Best to forget.”

— Robert Browning

9. “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

— Robert Browning

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10. “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

11. “Life is an empty dream.”

— Robert Browning

12. “Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.”

— Robert Browning

13. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.”

— Robert Browning

14. “I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.”

— Robert Browning

15. “Pippa’s Song The year’s at the spring The day’s at the morn Morning’s at seven, The Hill side’s dew-pearled The lark’s on the wing The snail’s on the thorn God’s in his heaven- All’s right with the world.”

— Robert Browning

16. “I think, am sure, a brother’s love exceeds All the world’s loves in its unworldliness.”

— Robert Browning

17. “Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’”

— Robert Browning

18. “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”

— Robert Browning

19. “Our aspirations are our responsibilities.”

— Robert Browning

20. “If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”

— Robert Browning

21. “What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”

— Robert Browning

22. “To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.”

— Robert Browning

23. “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”

— Robert Browning

24. “Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.”

— Robert Browning

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25. “My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.”

— Robert Browning

26. “Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.”

— Robert Browning

27. “Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!”

— Robert Browning

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28. “The great mind knows the power of gentleness.”

— Robert Browning

29. “God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.”

— Robert Browning

30. “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

31. “All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.”

— Robert Browning

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32. “Shun death, is my advice.”

— Robert Browning

33. “One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.”

— Robert Browning

34. “God is the perfect poet.”

— Robert Browning

35. “What so wild as words are?”

— Robert Browning

36. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.”

— Robert Browning

37. “Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.”

— Robert Browning

38. “Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.”

— Robert Browning

39. “It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.”

— Robert Browning

40. “God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.”

— Robert Browning

41. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

— Robert Browning

42. “Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”

— Robert Browning

43. “Truth never hurt the teller.”

— Robert Browning

44. “The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

45. “Who knows but the world may end tonight.”

— Robert Browning

46. “Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”

— Robert Browning

47. “On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”

— Robert Browning

48. “Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

— Robert Browning

49. “If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”

— Robert Browning

50. “Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.”

— Robert Browning