Robert Browning: Trending quotes
Robert Browning trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“What Youth deemed crystal,
Age finds out was dew.”
"Jochanan Hakkadosh" (1883).
Source: Jocoseria
“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 217.
Men and Women (1855)
Source: The Poems of Robert Browning
“Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".”
"De Gustibus", ii.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais):
"Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'"
"Bishop Blougram’s Apology", line 395; cited by Graham Greene as the epigraph he would choose for his novels.
Men and Women (1855)
“Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”
Source: A Death in the Desert (1864), Line 59.
Source: Dramatic Lyrics
“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”
Source: Browning's Paracelsus: Being the Text of Browning's Poem
“When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.”
"Bishop Blougram's Apology".
Men and Women (1855)
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”
"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Without love, our earth is a tomb
As quoted in Love's Way (1918) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 175; no earlier citation of this to Browning has been located.
Disputed
Variant: Love is energy of life.
“We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!”
"Confessions", line 34 (1864).
Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 1.
Context: Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"