Top 280 Robert Browning Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.”

— Robert Browning

52. “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

53. “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

54. “Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.”

— Robert Browning

55. “Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.”

— Robert Browning

56. “Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”

— Robert Browning

57. “I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.”

— Robert Browning

58. “What’s the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth – Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”

— Robert Browning

59. “Again the Cousin’s whistle! Go, my Love.”

— Robert Browning

60. “Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.”

— Robert Browning

61. “We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.”

— Robert Browning

62. “Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.”

— Robert Browning

63. “I judge people by what they might be, – not are, nor will be.”

— Robert Browning

64. “Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”

— Robert Browning

65. “Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.”

— Robert Browning

66. “Wander at will, Day after day, – Wander away, Wandering still – Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.”

— Robert Browning

67. “Time is counted, not by hours, but by heart-beats.”

— Robert Browning

68. “In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will’s somewhat – somewhat, too, the power – And thus we half-men struggle.”

— Robert Browning

69. “What a thing friendship is – World without end.”

— Robert Browning

70. “Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.”

— Robert Browning

71. “Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.”

— Robert Browning

72. “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

73. “Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.”

— Robert Browning

74. “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.”

— Robert Browning

75. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

76. “O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.”

— Robert Browning

77. “That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!”

— Robert Browning

78. “Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”

— Robert Browning

79. “But facts are facts and flinch not.”

— Robert Browning

80. “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

81. “If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.”

— Robert Browning

82. “A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.”

— Robert Browning

83. “Imperfection means perfection hid.”

— Robert Browning

84. “Youth means love, Vows can’t change nature, priests are only men.”

— Robert Browning

85. “A bitter heart that bides its time and bites.”

— Robert Browning

86. “I do what many dream of, all their lives.”

— Robert Browning

87. “Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.”

— Robert Browning

88. “Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”

— Robert Browning

89. “Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

— Robert Browning

90. “One wise man’s verdict outweighs all the fools’.”

— Robert Browning

91. “What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”

— Robert Browning

92. “Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other’s sake. That’s joy beyond joy.”

— Robert Browning

93. “No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.”

— Robert Browning

94. “I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.”

— Robert Browning

95. “Who knows most, doubts most.”

— Robert Browning

96. “All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.”

— Robert Browning

97. “God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.”

— Robert Browning

98. “Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.”

— Robert Browning

99. “Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It’s petals up...”

— Robert Browning

100. “How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”

— Robert Browning