Robert Browning Quotes

• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God

  Tags in Day, Single

• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Passion, Hearts

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

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Away, Less

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

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength, Sea, Land

• So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Loved, Fall, Asleep

• No, when the fight begins within himself, A man’s worth something.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fight, Worth

• 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

  Topics in Art, Truth

  Tags in Possible

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

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God, Justice

• Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Rome

• Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Measure, Shade

• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God, Soul

  Tags in Sure

• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorance, Innocence, Sin

• Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God, Progress

  Tags in Alone

• Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Best, Autumn

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Better, Succeed

• All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rose, Leaves, Bound

• But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Ever, Before

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

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Death, Dream

  Tags in Lose

• Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Ambition

• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alone, Men, Words

Robert Browning (128)

Birth:	7th May, 1812
Death:	12th March, 1890
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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