Top 280 Robert Browning Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.”

— Robert Browning

102. “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

103. “All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!”

— Robert Browning

104. “All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.”

— Robert Browning

105. “Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.”

— Robert Browning

106. “No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life’s arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.”

— Robert Browning

107. “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”

— Robert Browning

108. “Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.”

— Robert Browning

109. “There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.”

— Robert Browning

110. “Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.”

— Robert Browning

111. “Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

— Robert Browning

112. “I have lived, And seen God’s hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.”

— Robert Browning

113. “There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music.”

— Robert Browning

114. “If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.”

— Robert Browning

115. “The world and life’s too big to pass for a dream.”

— Robert Browning

116. “What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name’s sake.”

— Robert Browning

117. “Where the apple reddens never pry – lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.”

— Robert Browning

118. “God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.”

— Robert Browning

119. “The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”

— Robert Browning

120. “Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.”

— Robert Browning

121. “It’s wiser being good than bad; It’s safer being meek than fierce: It’s fitter being sane than mad.”

— Robert Browning

122. “How very hard it is to be a Christian!”

— Robert Browning

123. “I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.”

— Robert Browning

124. “Why stay on the earth except to grow.”

— Robert Browning

125. “When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe’s Birthday.”

— Robert Browning

126. “Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.”

— Robert Browning

127. “Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.”

— Robert Browning

128. “Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.”

— Robert Browning

129. “But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; ’tis we musicians know.”

— Robert Browning

130. “Such ever was love’s way: to rise, it stoops.”

— Robert Browning

131. “As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.”

— Robert Browning

132. “Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.”

— Robert Browning

133. “Women hate a debt as men a gift.”

— Robert Browning

134. “All’s love, yet all’s law.”

— Robert Browning

135. “What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.”

— Robert Browning

136. “Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!”

— Robert Browning

137. “Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?”

— Robert Browning

138. “Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.”

— Robert Browning

139. “Dear, dead women, with such hair, too – what’s become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?”

— Robert Browning

140. “What’s come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”

— Robert Browning

141. “Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.”

— Robert Browning

142. “A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”

— Robert Browning

143. “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

144. “Let’s contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, – Only sleep.”

— Robert Browning

145. “Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!”

— Robert Browning

146. “Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!”

— Robert Browning

147. “Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.”

— Robert Browning

148. “For the preacher’s merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!”

— Robert Browning

149. “Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired, – been happy.”

— Robert Browning

150. “When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.”

— Robert Browning