Top 280 Robert Browning Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Smiling the boy fell dead.”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

153. “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

154. “A lion may die of an ass’s kick.”

— Robert Browning

155. “In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.”

— Robert Browning

156. “Make us happy and you make us good.”

— Robert Browning

157. “What joy is better than news of friends?”

— Robert Browning

158. “Lofty designs must close in like effects.”

— Robert Browning

159. “How good is life, the mere living!”

— Robert Browning

160. “A man in armor is his armor’s slave.”

— Robert Browning

161. “When the liquor’s out, why clink the cannikin?”

— Robert Browning

162. “Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!”

— Robert Browning

163. “Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.”

— Robert Browning

164. “Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.”

— Robert Browning

165. “The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.”

— Robert Browning

166. “Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you’ll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!”

— Robert Browning

167. “Death: the grand perhaps.”

— Robert Browning

168. “Let friend trust friends, and love demand love’s like.”

— Robert Browning

169. “When pain ends, gain ends too.”

— Robert Browning

170. “White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life’s business being just the terrible choice.”

— Robert Browning

171. “Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.”

— Robert Browning

172. “Tis Man’s to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.”

— Robert Browning

173. “This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.”

— Robert Browning

174. “He guides me and the bird. In His good time!”

— Robert Browning

175. “Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.”

— Robert Browning

176. “Faultless to a fault.”

— Robert Browning

177. “T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.”

— Robert Browning

178. “Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.”

— Robert Browning

179. “The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.”

— Robert Browning

180. “Hold On. Hope Hard.”

— Robert Browning

181. “The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!”

— Robert Browning

182. “The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”

— Robert Browning

183. “The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go.”

— Robert Browning

184. “You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.”

— Robert Browning

185. “Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!”

— Robert Browning

186. “Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.”

— Robert Browning

187. “Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her.”

— Robert Browning

188. “Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.”

— Robert Browning

189. “In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools – that’s vanity.”

— Robert Browning

190. “Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.”

— Robert Browning

191. “Without love, our earth is a tomb.”

— Robert Browning

192. “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

193. “Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.”

— Robert Browning

194. “I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.”

— Robert Browning

195. “He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.”

— Robert Browning

196. “Never brag, never bluster, never blush.”

— Robert Browning

197. “God’s justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.”

— Robert Browning

198. “To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.”

— Robert Browning

199. “From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o’erlace the sea.”

— Robert Browning

200. “Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world’s life.”

— Robert Browning