E. B. Browning Quotes

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.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

May the good God pardon all good men.

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

Love that endures, from life that disappears!

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.