Quote: What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere? [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: 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]
Quote: This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Since when was genius found respectable? [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Who so loves believes the impossible. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Books succeed, and lives fail. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
Quote: Eve is a twofold mystery. [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]