Top 280 Robert Browning Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”

— Robert Browning

252. “Thought is the soul of act.”

— Robert Browning

253. “The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.”

— Robert Browning

254. “But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.”

— Robert Browning

255. “Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.”

— Robert Browning

256. “It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”

— Robert Browning

257. “Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.”

— Robert Browning

258. “Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side...”

— Robert Browning

259. “Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.”

— Robert Browning

260. “Earth is crammed with heavens.”

— Robert Browning

261. “Time’swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.”

— Robert Browning

262. “They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.”

— Robert Browning

263. “Truth that peeps Over the glass’s edge when dinner’s done.”

— Robert Browning

264. “Be sure that God Ne’er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.”

— Robert Browning

265. “Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete!”

— Robert Browning

266. “All service is the same with God.”

— Robert Browning

267. “I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow.”

— Robert Browning

268. “The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!”

— Robert Browning

269. “Talent should minister to genius.”

— Robert Browning

270. “The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.”

— Robert Browning

271. “That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.”

— Robert Browning

272. “What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne’er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.”

— Robert Browning

273. “Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven’s employ?”

— Robert Browning

274. “The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don’t really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.”

— Robert Browning

275. “Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!”

— Robert Browning

276. “Silence ’tis awe decrees.”

— Robert Browning

277. “Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!”

— Robert Browning

278. “In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.”

— Robert Browning

279. “Read the text right and emancipate the world. – Robert Browning.”

— Robert Browning

280. “Your reach should exceed your grasp, or what’s a heaven for.”

— Robert Browning

281. “There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.”

— Robert Browning