403 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...

Since when was genius found respectable?

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

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.

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?

Never say No when the world says Aye.

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.