Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(638 votes)   Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Elizabeth Browning

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(458 votes)   And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(388 votes)   The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... ''curse that stool!'' Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(364 votes)   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
1806-1861, British Poet

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(343 votes)   Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(330 votes)   Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(305 votes)   He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(288 votes)   The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(288 votes)   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
1806-1861, British Poet

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(281 votes)   We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(277 votes)   Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(276 votes)   I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(275 votes)   It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(273 votes)   The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(270 votes)   I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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