Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17 quotations
A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Since when was genius found respectable?
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Eve is a twofold mystery.
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.