Robert Browning Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Grieving, Funeral

• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Sweet, Failure

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

• Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Past, Succeed

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

• When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Want, Leisure

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

• Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!

  Robert Browning

  Delight, Today, Pleasure

  Robert Browning (1840). “Sordello [a poem].”, p.232

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