Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Robert Browning (English Poet)

Robert Browning (1812–89) was a prolific Victorian-era English poet and playwright. His complex psychological novel is the forerunner of modern fiction’s obsession with unreliable narrators and shifting narrative perspectives.

Born in Camberwell, London, Browning was an intelligent child. He was deeply influenced by his father’s wide-ranging collection of more than 6,000 books in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish.

By the time he was five, Browning could read and write well. He was a big fan of Percy Bysshe Shelley and asked for all of Shelley’s works for his thirteenth birthday. By the age of fourteen, Browning had learned Latin, Greek, and French.

Browning is widely recognized as a master of dramatic, evocative monologues, and psychological portraiture. His major work, Men and Women (1855,) contains his most exceptional dramatic monologues, such as “Love Among the Ruins,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea del Sarto,” and “Bishop Bloughram’s Apology.”

Browning is best known for the children’s poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” His distinguished poem The Ring and the Book (1868–69) is a 21,000-line poem in four volumes derived from a 17th-century Roman murder trial. The story unfolds in the form of unreliable and incomplete claims and accusations of nine speakers. In this work, Browning achieved confusing yet informative relativity of perception that served to reiterate that experience is never distinct from who we are and how we see.

Browning was married to the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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‘Twere too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day’s delight.
—Robert Browning
Topics: The Present

That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Singing

Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Fiction

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Togetherness, Lovers, Love

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools – that’s vanity.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Vanity

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Reason, Thought, Truth

Less is more.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Property, Design, Possessions

So free we seem, so fettered we are!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Freedom

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Tomorrow, The Future

No sketches first, no studies, that
—Robert Browning
Topics: Art

Imperfection means perfection hid.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Perfection

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Bravery, Courage

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Uncertainty

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
—Robert Browning

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Emotions

Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Ambition

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Effort

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a Heaven for?
—Robert Browning
Topics: Aspirations, Ambition, Goals, General, Democracy

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don’t really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Golf

When a man’s busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Reality, Opportunities

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Autumn, Seasons

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best God invents.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Beauty

T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Kindness

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
—Robert Browning

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Mind

Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Man

So, fall asleep love, loved by me….for I know love, I am loved by thee.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Romance

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Writing, Writers

‘Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Adversity

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Solitude

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