Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English poet

Lived from: 1806 - 1861

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 6 march 1806 Died: 29 june 1861

  • Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
  • This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
  • Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
  • 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.
  • At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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  • Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
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  • What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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  • A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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  • A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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  • And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''
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  • At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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  • Books succeed, and lives fail.
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  • But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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  • Eve is a twofold mystery.
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  • For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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  • Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
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  • God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
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  • He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
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  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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  • How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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  • Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
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  • I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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  • If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
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  • Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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What are the most famous quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

The two most famous quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning are:

  • "Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand."
  • "What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

When did Elizabeth Barrett Browning live?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 and died in the year 1861.