Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
"Since when was genius found respectable?"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Genius)
"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Life, Idea)
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love, Cruelty, Pain, World)
"Who so loves believes the impossible."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Power, Genius, Individuality)
"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Dream, Taste, Wine)
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Death)
"For tis not in mere death that men die most."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Death, Men)
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love, Soul)
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Beauty, Force, Right, Weakness, Wrong)
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love)
"Light tomorrow with today!"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Light, Tomorrow)
"He lives most life whoever breathes most air."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Life)
"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Dreams, God, Gifts, Man, Shame)
"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Faith, Desire)
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Life, Blush, Fire, Girls, Gnats, Shame, Wishing)
"How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Comfort, Earth)
"First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Time, First)
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Earth, Heaven)
"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Man, Silence)
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Reading)
"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Light, Man)
"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Greatness, Ignorance, May)
"A woman is always younger than a man at equal years."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Man, Woman, Years)
"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: God, Answers)
"My sun sets to raise again."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Sun)
"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Will)
"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Death, Love, God, Smiles, Tears)
"He said true things, but called them by wrong names."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Names, Wrong)