Barrett Browning

Famous quotes containing the words barrett browning, barrett and/or browning:

    Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
    By reiteration chiefly.
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    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 (1806–1861)

    What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all;
    Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)