All Philip Sidney Quotes
- The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. Best
- With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Children
- Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead. Bells
- No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. Affection
- Who will adhere to him that abandons himself? Abandon
- It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. Avail
- Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. Bosoms
- 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. Answer
- In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others. Action
- A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. Character
- I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. Herald
- Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. Bad Friends
- The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action. Action
- No is no negative in a woman's mouth. Inspirational
- Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. Achilles
- Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. Condemning
- All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. All
- To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland. Death
- 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… Absolutely
- It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. Deceit