Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness,
but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
Books are masters
who instruct us without rods or ferules,
without words or anger, without bread or money.
If you approach them, they are not asleep;
if you seek them, they do not hide;
if you blunder, they do not scold;
if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
~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.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
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~
If thou must love me,
let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
Light tomorrow with today!
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading.
It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
Who so loves believes the impossible.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
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;
Which things are corals to cut life upon,
Although such trifles.
~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.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning~
song playing....Till I Loved You