Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes

" Who so loves believes the impossible. " # Love # Belief # Impossibility

" How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. " # Love # Friends and Friendship # Soul

" No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. " # Friends and Friendship # Books - Reading # Love

" Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done. " # Work

" A woman's always younger than a man at equal years. " # Age and Aging # Equality # Men and Women

" He said true things, but called them by wrong names. " # Names

" The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. " # Beauty

" Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. " # Unhappiness # Death and Dying # Happiness

" 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! " # Goodness # Freedom # Power

" A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. " # Neighbors # Reputation # Love