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

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  • Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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  • Since when was genius found respectable?
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  • The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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  • The devil's most devilish when respectable.
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  • 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.''
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  • The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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  • What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
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  • Who so loves believes the impossible.
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  • Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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