Top 191 Quotes & Sayings by Philip Sidney
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Great is not great to the greater.
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
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.
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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.
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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.
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.
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
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.
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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.
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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