Philip Sidney famous quotes

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
-- Philip Sidney

#Mouths #Negative #Refusal

My true love hath my heart, and I have his
-- Philip Sidney

#Love #Marriage #Couple

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
-- Philip Sidney

#Motivational #Education #Stay Strong

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
-- Philip Sidney

#Fitness #Air #Long

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
-- Philip Sidney

#Work #Neglect #Enjoy

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
-- Philip Sidney

#Being Strong #Nature #Heart

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
-- Philip Sidney

#Church #Rich #Poor

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
-- Philip Sidney

#Knights #Bravery #Danger

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
-- Philip Sidney

#Writing #Heart #Looks

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
-- Philip Sidney

#Sweet #Knowledge

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
-- Philip Sidney

#Kindness #Gains #Courtesy

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
-- Philip Sidney

#War #Law #Soldier

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

#Plato #Essence #Light

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
-- Philip Sidney

#Men #Action #Goodness

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
-- Philip Sidney

#Truth #Simple #Men

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.
-- Philip Sidney

#Life #Heart #Missing

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
-- Philip Sidney

#Feet #Weapons #Tongue

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
-- Philip Sidney

#Men #Thinking #Past

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
-- Philip Sidney

#Knowledge #Rust #Rich

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
-- Philip Sidney

#Veterans Day #Spring #Roots

They love indeed who quake to say they love.
-- Philip Sidney

#Life #Love Life #Quake

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
-- Philip Sidney

#Sympathy #Sparks #Favour

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
-- Philip Sidney

#Silence #Slides #Silent

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

#Inspirational #Real #Ambition

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
-- Philip Sidney

#Honesty #Heart #Disadvantages

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

#Sleep #Insomnia #Men

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
-- Philip Sidney

#Determination #Law #Rebel

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
-- Philip Sidney

#Sun #Mark #Aim

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
-- Philip Sidney

#Littles #Reign #Rebellion

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
-- Philip Sidney

#Secret #Life Is #Secrecy

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
-- Philip Sidney

#Hero #Victory #Glory

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

#Character #Men #Evil

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
-- Philip Sidney

#Men #Ancestry #Birth

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
-- Philip Sidney

#Education #Hands #Keys

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

#Sea #Law #Ignorant

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
-- Philip Sidney

#Pain #Life And Death #Monsters

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
-- Philip Sidney

#Power #Authority #Command

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
-- Philip Sidney

#Sleep #Lions

You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
-- Philip Sidney

#Heart #Exercise #Age

...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...
-- Philip Sidney

#Divine #Strikers

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
-- Philip Sidney

#Love #Mourning #Bells

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

#Children #Men #Play

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
-- Philip Sidney

#Children #Legacy #Speech

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
-- Philip Sidney

#Perfection #Wit

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
-- Philip Sidney

#War #Teaching #Heaven

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
-- Philip Sidney

#Madness #Said

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

#Heart #Yellow #Done

**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

#Angel #Kissing #Realizing

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
-- Philip Sidney

#Giving #Debt #Delight

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
-- Philip Sidney

#Fear #Disdain

High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
-- Philip Sidney

#Heart #Courtesy

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
-- Philip Sidney

#Sports #Warrior #Flirting

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
-- Philip Sidney

#Happiness #Praiseworthy

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
-- Philip Sidney

#Single #Being Alone #Noble

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
-- Philip Sidney

#Affection

Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?
-- Philip Sidney

#Self #Abandon

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

#Grace #Prison #Excellent

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
-- Philip Sidney

#May #Rays #Originality

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
-- Philip Sidney

#Fall #Firsts #Deceit

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
-- Philip Sidney

#Blessing #Benefits #Action

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
-- Philip Sidney

#Heart #Character #Noble

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
-- Philip Sidney

#Men #Virtue #Pedigree

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
-- Philip Sidney

#Gossip

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
-- Philip Sidney

#Knowledge #Action #Should

Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
-- Philip Sidney

#Sweet #Flower #Rivers

Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight
-- Philip Sidney

#Delight #Teach

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
-- Philip Sidney

#Excellence #Doe #Please

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
-- Philip Sidney

#Advice #Bravery #Mind

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
-- Philip Sidney

#Doubt

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
-- Philip Sidney

#Experience #Lips #Want

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
-- Philip Sidney

#Children #Heart #Writing

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
-- Philip Sidney

#Death #Done #Said

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
-- Philip Sidney

#Confusion #Matter #Causes

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

#Names #Answers #Needs