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

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Hope

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
—Robert Browning
Topics: Pleasure

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

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: Thought, Reason, Truth

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

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

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Romance

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

When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Fighting, Discipline, Control, Self-Discovery, Fight, Self-Control, Conflict

Good, to forgive; Best to forget.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Forgiveness

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

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Defeat

Truth never hurts the teller.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Truth

Imperfection means perfection hid.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Perfection

Make us happy and you make us good.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Happiness

I … know what I do, and am unmoved by men’s blame, or their praise either.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Awareness, Acceptance, Realization

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

Love is energy of life.
—Robert Browning

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

The great mind knows the power of gentleness, only tries force because persuasion fails.
—Robert Browning

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

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

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

Progress is the law of life; man is not a man as yet.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Wives, Progress, Marriage

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

I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Trust

There’s a new tribunal now higher than God’s—The educated man s!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Education

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

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

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