Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Think, in mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass! - 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.' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The devil's most devilish when respectable. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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