Top 100 Sidney Philip Quotes
#1. And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Philip Sidney
#2. As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
Philip Sidney
#3. Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
Philip Sidney
#4. The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
Philip Sidney
#5. For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
Philip Sidney
#6. With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Philip Sidney
#7. There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
Philip Sidney
#10. Poetry, a speaking picture ... to teach and delight
Philip Sidney
#11. Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Philip Sidney
#12. What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
Philip Sidney
#13. Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
Philip Sidney
#14. Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.
Philip Sidney
#15. I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
Philip Sidney
#16. A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
Philip Sidney
#17. It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
Philip Sidney
#18. Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
Philip Sidney
#19. High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
Philip Sidney
#20. You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
Philip Sidney
#21. Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
Philip Sidney
#22. We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
Philip Sidney
#23. Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Philip Sidney
#24. With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
Philip Sidney
#25. In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
Philip Sidney
#26. A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
Philip Sidney
#27. Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
Philip Sidney
#28. For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.
Philip Sidney
#29. Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Philip Sidney
#30. To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
Philip Sidney
#32. Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Philip Sidney
#33. Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
Philip Sidney
#35. Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.
Philip Sidney
#36. Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.
Philip Sidney
#37. As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.
Philip Sidney
#38. In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
Philip Sidney
#40. Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
Philip Sidney
#41. Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
Philip Sidney
#42. Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Philip Sidney
#43. It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Philip Sidney
#44. For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
Philip Sidney
#45. The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
Philip Sidney
#46. A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
Philip Sidney
#48. In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Philip Sidney
#49. Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
Philip Sidney
#50. A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Philip Sidney
#52. It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
Philip Sidney
#53. Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Philip Sidney
#54. A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring
Philip Sidney
#56. Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
Philip Sidney
#57. It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney
#58. The tip no jewel needs to wear:
The tip is jewel of the ear.
Philip Sidney
#59. The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
Philip Sidney
#60. Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Philip Sidney
#61. Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Philip Sidney
#62. A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
Philip Sidney
#63. Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
Philip Sidney
#64. I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
T. S. Eliot
#65. Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
#68. There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Philip Sidney
#69. The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
Philip Sidney
#70. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
Philip Sidney
#71. Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
Philip Sidney
#73. To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
Philip Sidney
#74. Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Philip Sidney
#75. We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#76. The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
Philip Sidney
#77. The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
Philip Sidney
#78. **Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo ... A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life ...
Philip Sidney
#79. Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
Philip Sidney
#80. He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
Philip Sidney
#81. Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
Philip Sidney
#82. What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
Philip Sidney
#83. Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Philip Sidney
#85. Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are
That do not leave your left friend at the wurst,
But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst
So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.
Philip Sidney
#86. I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.
Philip Sidney
#87. Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
Philip Sidney
#88. Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.
Philip Sidney
#89. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Philip Sidney
#90. Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.
Philip Sidney
#91. Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
Philip Sidney
#92. In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
Philip Sidney
#93. My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
Philip Sidney
#94. Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Philip Sidney
#95. Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.
Philip Sidney
#96. Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
Philip Sidney
#97. To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Philip Sidney
#98. In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
Philip Sidney
#99. There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
Philip Sidney
#100. There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
Philip Sidney
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