Robert Browning Quotes
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898). “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau”
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions
'La Saisiaz' (1878) prologue
Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1975
Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press
Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1993). “The Brownings' correspondence: September 1849-January 1850 : letters 2813-2900”
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
"Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)
'Fifine at the Fair' (1872) st. 32
I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.
Robert Browning (1993). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.76, Courier Corporation
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC
'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 9, l. 1175.
Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA