“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
Author
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11 quotes
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”
More from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
“For tis not in mere death that men die most.”
“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.'”
“If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”
“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.”
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
“Ne pesez pas l'oeuvre avant que la journée soit finie et le labeur achevé.”