Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

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Soul Valentine's Day

My sun sets to rise again.

Poems

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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

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Since when was genius found respectable?

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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

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Light tomorrow with today!

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If Italy were Mona Lisa then Florence would be her smile.

You will begin to wonder that human daring ever achieved anything so magnificent.

John Ruskin (Mornings in Florence)

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and the spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned on his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Mark Twain (Autobiography)

Under the shadow of a stately Pile,
The dome of Florence, pensive and alone,
Nor giving heed to aught that passed the while,
I stood, and gazed upon a marble stone,
The laurelled Dante's favourite seat. A throne,

William Wordsworth

Among the four old bridges that span the river, the Ponte Vecchio, that bridge which is covered with the shops of jewelers and goldsmiths, is a most enchanting feature in the scene. The space of one house, in the center, being left open, the view beyond, is shown as in a frame; and that precious glimpse of sky, and water, and rich buildings, shining so quietly among the huddled roofs and gables on the bridge, is exquisite.

Charles Dickens

If you don't fall in love with me, at least you will fall in love with Florence.

Lino in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

Amy: "I wanna see everything while I still can. The David, the cathedral at the Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery, the Ponte Vecchio."
Sloane: "Okay, then what are you gonna do on your second week? Florence and Europe are a lot more than what's in guidebooks."
Amy: "I'm up for whatever's free."
Sloane: "Take a lover. That's fun. And free."

Sloane in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

Piece of advice: Avoid Americans. You'll never experience Florence if you hang out with only them.

Sloane in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

And when I thought of Florence, it was like a miracle city embalmed and like a corolla, because it was called the city of lilies and its cathedral, St. Mary of the Flowers.

Marcel Proust

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Andy Warhol

Stockholm McDonald's Moscow Florence

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lifes of those we touch.

Remember Me

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Soul Friendship Relationships

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.

Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Some people carry a big bonfire in their souls, without having anyone to enjoy it.

Vincent van Gogh

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Soul Solitude & Loneliness

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

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Love Valentine's Day

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

I can live without you. I just don't want to.

Sarah Huttinger in Rumor Has It...

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Love Valentine's Day

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

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Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!

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Happiness Dancing Sun Rain

Eternal sunshine creates deserts.

Arabian Saying

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In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

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Beginnings can be painful. But that doesn't mean they're bad.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Clive Barker

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Alexandre Dumas

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Genius Foolishness

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Problems Intelligence

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

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Genius Foolishness

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

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Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

Psalms - 68, 20

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God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

1 John - 4, 16

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God Confirmation

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

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Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Memories Moments

Life is full of small, perfect moments.

Cinderella in Cinderella

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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