Robert Browning quotes

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

— Robert Browning

“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.”

— Robert Browning

“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

“But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?”

— Robert Browning

“Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.”

— Robert Browning

“Faultless to a fault.”

— Robert Browning

“God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.”

— Robert Browning

“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”

— Robert Browning

“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

“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

“Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.”

— Robert Browning

“No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“Oh, to be in England now that April's there.”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“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

“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”

— Robert Browning

“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.”

— Robert Browning

“Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“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

“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