Robert Browning

Robert Browning

23 quotes

English poet and playwright Robert Browning has a gift for language that makes complex ideas feel instantly clear. Celebrated for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax, Robert Browning brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. Our collection holds 30 quotes from Robert Browning, each offering a different angle on Age, Strength, Love, Business, and Best. Start here and see if you agree: "Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”

— Robert Browning

Faith

All Quotes by Robert Browning

“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”

— Robert Browning

Strength

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

— Robert Browning

Art

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

— Robert Browning

Love

“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”

— Robert Browning

Art

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

— Robert Browning

Age

“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.”

— Robert Browning

Age

“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”

— Robert Browning

Business

“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”

— Robert Browning

Beauty

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”

— Robert Browning

Alone

“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

— Robert Browning

Religion

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

— Robert Browning

Best

“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”

— Robert Browning

Strength

“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”

— Robert Browning

Business

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

— Robert Browning

Failure

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

Best

“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”

— Robert Browning

Love

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”

— Robert Browning

Music

“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”

— Robert Browning

Age

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”

— Robert Browning

Faith

“God is the perfect poet.”

— Robert Browning

Poetry