Robert Browning Quotes

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

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

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

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

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

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

Love is energy of life.

Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Robert Browning

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

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

God is the perfect poet.

Robert Browning