Famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

  • And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • You’re something between a dream and a miracle. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    You’re something between a dream and a miracle.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Quick-loving hearts … may quickly loathe. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Quick-loving hearts … may quickly loathe.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Good aims not always make good books. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Good aims not always make good books.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio’s stories; and I am not ashamed of it. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio’s stories; and I am not ashamed of it.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means,Than a sublime art frivolously. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means,Than a sublime art frivolously.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning