Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Love Is, Essence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

  18 Copy quote

• With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Struggle, Sound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Psychology Press

  58 Copy quote

• Two human loves make one divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Anniversary, Wedding, Two

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850). “Poems: By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In two volumes”, p.302

  70 Copy quote

• A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Greatness, Men, Clean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405

  70 Copy quote

• There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Clouds, Blue, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.439

  50 Copy quote

• truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Truth, Pain, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.451

  21 Copy quote

• He who breathes deepest lives most.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Health, Inspire

  23 Copy quote

• What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Men

  6 Copy quote

• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Witty, Devil

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 105

  38 Copy quote

• My sun sets to raise again.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sun, Raises, Sun Set

  5 Copy quote

• I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Angel, Writing, Night

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.112

  6 Copy quote

• Never say No when the world says Aye.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Conformity

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.15

  14 Copy quote

• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

  20 Copy quote

• All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Military, Hero, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.400

  12 Copy quote

• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

  60 Copy quote

• Who so loves believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Faith, Believe

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.195

  11 Copy quote

• Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Cheerful, Possibility, Faculty

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1845-July 1845, letters 1799-1981”

  7 Copy quote

• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Desire Love, Headstone, Gravestone

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

  22 Copy quote

• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

  4 Copy quote

• A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Men, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.343

  7 Copy quote

• Earth's crammed with Heaven.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Heaven, Earth

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

  10 Copy quote

• We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Poetry, Humanity

  4 Copy quote

• God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christmas

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.189, Everyman's Library

  15 Copy quote

• If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Sake, Wedding Poetry

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 14.

  17 Copy quote

• Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, Done, Criminal Mind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

Page 2 of 11

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin