Robert Browning

Poet English 1812 – 1889

English Victorian poet known for dramatic monologues.

393 quotes

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."
Life
"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth."
Art
"All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."
Faith
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."
Beauty
"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward."
Courage
"Take the happiest rating of the happiness of life, it never amounts to more than a few fine days."
Happiness
"Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death."
Knowledge
"Who knows but the world may end to-night."
Time
"Less is more."
Wisdom
"How it fires my blood to be the thing I am, not to achieve something beyond it."
Success
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
Dreams
"All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay."
Hope
"I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on."
Perseverance
"You know, we Italian Masters, we don't in our heart of hearts believe that practice makes perfect."
Work
"The moment one learns English, complications set in."
Education
"Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death."
Death
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
Change
"No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something."
Strength
"Truth never hurts the teller."
Truth
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
Literature
"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy."
Peace
"God is just; He gives to each man what he deserves."
Justice
"Love will have all or nothing; he cannot live on a mixed diet of truth and falsehood."
Love
"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Action! Action!"
Fear
"Praise wisely; praise is the reflection of a wise man from an able speaker."
Kindness
"The year's at the spring, All perfect day; The hill-side's dew-pearled."
Nature
"Hope thou not much, and thou shalt lose none."
Wisdom
"I am not merry; but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise."
Humor
"Let us not look backward in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
Motivation
"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things."
Adventure