E. B. Browning Quotes
I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.
There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.
I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad; But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.