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Robert Browning
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“Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
“So, Willy, let you and me be wipers Of scores out with all men — especially pipers! And, whether they pipe us from rats or from mice, If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 300 (1842).
“Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a Gondola", line 49 (1842).
“The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842), xiii
“Over my head his arm he flung Against the world.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842), xix
“There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843), Act i, scene iii.
“Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf, Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
“I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,—the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,—Nature's good And God's.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Soul's Tragedy (1846), Act. i.
“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Soul's Tragedy (1846), Act ii.
“Sing, riding's a joy! For me I ride.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Men and Women (1855), The last Ride together, vii.
“It is so horrible, I dare at times imagine to my need Some future state revealed to us by Zeus”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).
“We loved, sir — used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was — But then, how it was sweet!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Confessions", line 34 (1864).
“Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Balaustion's Adventure, line 323 (1871).
“Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Inn Album (1875).
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save 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 (1812–1889) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the 'Mermaid'" (1876)
“I find earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the 'Mermaid'" (1876).
“Never the time and the place And the loved one all together!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Never the Time and the Place" (1883).
“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jochanan Hakkadosh" (1883).
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apollo and the Fates", line 210 (1887).
“All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath and bloom, shade and shine, — wonder, wealth, and — how far above them —”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moment eternal — just that and no more — When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Now", line 12 (1889).
“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 (1812–1889) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Asolando, "Epilogue" (1889).
“Strive and thrive!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Asolando, "Epilogue" (1889).
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth is within ourselves.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Error has no end.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every joy is gain And gain is gain, however small.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“over zealous in the feat And stumbling on a peril unaware. Was captive, "trammelled in his proper snare," They phrase it, "taken by his own intrigue”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hill-cat boasts some cunning of her own, Some stealthy tricks to better beasts unknown That quick with prey enough her hunger blunts And feeds her fat while gaunt the lion hunts.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...]his back is fairly turned? The pair of goodly palaces are burned, The gardens ravaged, and your Guelf is drunk A week with joy; the next, his laughter sunk In sobs of blood, for he found, some strange way, Old Salinguerra back again; I say Old Salinguerra in the town once more Uprooting, overturning, flame before Blood fetlock-high beneath him; Azzo fled; Who scaped the carnage followed; then the dead Were pushed aside from Salinguerra's throne. He ruled once more Ferrara, all alone. Till Azzo, stunned awhile, revived, would pounce; Coupled with Boniface, like lynx and ounce.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So men believe And worship what they know not, nor receive Delight from.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have they fancies — slow, perchance, Not at their beck, which indistinctly glance Until by song each floating part be linked To each, and all grow palpable, distinct? He pondered this.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deeds let escape are never to be done.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each a God's germ, but doomed remain a germ In unexpanded infancy”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven— All's right with the world!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,— Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source