Top 28 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

These are some quotes by English author Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poet, who lived between March 6, 1806 and June 29, 1861.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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