Robert Browning Quotes

• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Old, Grow

• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Eye, Keep

• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Beauty, Trust

  Tags in End

• I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Strength, Try

• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Beauty, God

  Tags in Best

• How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Heart, Living

• Faultless to a fault.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fault, Faultless

• Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Place, Loved

• On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfect, Broken, Earth

• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forward, Sleep, Fight

• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Old, Rather

• I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God

  Tags in Fight

• Love is energy of life.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

• Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

• That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Over, Song

• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try, Makes, Leave

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

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fellow, Swear, Kiss

• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Left

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Back

• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Anxiety

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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