Browning Poetic Quotes & Sayings

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. — Patricia Highsmith

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning. — Paul Provenza

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He was silent. She hoped she'd injured his feelings - assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place. — Sherry Thomas

I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up with it. — Mark Twain

The marathon has so many elements to prepare for. I think that is one reason I always want to come back for more. There is always something to change in your preparation and I am still trying to discover what I am capable of. I guess I just love the challenge. — Dathan Ritzenhein

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals. — Bertrand Russell

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more. — Ciara

It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This can be achieved through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us. — Narendra Modi

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value. — Socrates