--- title: "15 May Quotes By Elizabeth Barrett Browning" description: "15 May quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Plus more from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_heart_quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe-1_1671872.png" --- > [Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_heart_quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe-1_1671872.png) > [May the good God pardon all good men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/may-the-good-god-pardon-all-good-men/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_forgiveness_may-the-good-god-pardon-all-good-men-237_2370146.png) > [Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/earth-may-embitter-not-remove-the-love-divinely-given-and-e-en-that/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cd/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_death_earth-may-embitter-not-remove-the-love-d_1927196.png) > [The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-least-flower-with-brimming-cup-may-stand-and-share-its-dew-drop/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/773/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_cups_the-least-flower-with-brimming-cup-may-s_1679342.png) > [But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/but-love-me-for-love-s-sake-that-evermore-thou-may-st-love-on-through/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a36/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_eternity_but-love-me-for-love-s-sake-that-evermor_471483.png) > [An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/an-ignorance-of-means-may-minister-to-greatness-but-an-ignorance-of/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_greatness_an-ignorance-of-means-may-minister-to-gr_3062936.png) > [A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/a-man-may-love-a-woman-perfectly-and-yet-by-no-means-ignorantly/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/515/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_enough_a-man-may-love-a-woman-perfectly-and-yet_337998.jpg) > [Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/through-heaven-and-earth-god-s-will-moves-freely-and-i-follow-it-as/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/352/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_angel_through-heaven-and-earth-god-s-will-move_2321052.jpg) > [You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/you-may-write-twenty-lines-one-day-or-even-three-like-euripides-in/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b2/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_good-work_you-may-write-twenty-lines-one-day-or-ev_3165887.png) > [Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/very-whitely-still-the-lilies-of-our-lives-may-reassure-their/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_dew_very-whitely-still-the-lilies-of-our-liv_1605798.png) > [I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/i-f-thou-must-love-me-let-it-be-for-nought-except-for-love-s-sake/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_and-love_i-f-thou-must-love-me-let-it-be-for-noug_3128932.png) > [We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/we-all-have-known-good-critics-who-have-stamped-out-poet-s-hopes-good/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10e/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_causes_we-all-have-known-good-critics-who-have_2298862.png) > [The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-sweetest-lives-are-those-to-duty-wed-whose-deeds-both-great-and/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_bells_the-sweetest-lives-are-those-to-duty-wed_3166206.png) > [Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/unless-you-can-muse-in-a-crowd-all-day-on-the-absent-face-that-fixed/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_absent_unless-you-can-muse-in-a-crowd-all-day-o_920690.jpg) > [The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-growing-drama-has-outgrown-such-toys-of-simulated-stature-face/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_actors_the-growing-drama-has-outgrown-such-toys_1388836.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Elizabeth Barrett Browning > [I should not dare to call my soul my own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/i-should-not-dare-to-call-my-soul-my-own/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/many-a-crown-covers-bald-foreheads/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/and-lilies-are-still-lilies-pulled-by-smutty-hands-though-spotted/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-greeks-said-grandly-in-their-tragic-phrase-let-no-one-be-called/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [“The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-face-of-all-the-world-is-changed-i-think-since-first-i-heard-the/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/wall-must-get-the-weather-stain-before-they-grow-the-ivy/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways-i-love-thee-to-the-depth-and/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/with-stammering-lips-and-insufficient-sound-i-strive-and-struggle-to/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-charm-one-might-say-the-genius-of-memory-is-that-it-is-choosy/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/the-flower-girl-s-prayer-to-buy-roses-and-pinks-held-out-in-the-smoke/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/they-say-that-god-lives-very-high-but-if-you-look-above-the-pines-you/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/men-of-science-osteologists-and-surgeons-beat-some-poets-in-respect/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/we-can-t-separate-our-humanity-from-our-poetry/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/happy-are-all-free-peoples-too-strong-to-be-dispossessed-but-blessed/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) > [Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/suddenly-as-rare-things-will-it-vanished/) [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/elizabeth-barrett-browning/#itemlist", "name": "15 May Quotes By Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_heart_quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe-1_1671872.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_heart_quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe-1_1671872.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ece/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_heart_quick-loving-hearts-may-quickly-loathe-1_1671872.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "May the good God pardon all good men.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/may-the-good-god-pardon-all-good-men/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_forgiveness_may-the-good-god-pardon-all-good-men-237_2370146.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_forgiveness_may-the-good-god-pardon-all-good-men-237_2370146.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/elizabeth-barrett-browning-102_forgiveness_may-the-good-god-pardon-all-good-men-237_2370146.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“May the good God pardon all good men.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; 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