“The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.”
Source: The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse
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Famous Philip Sidney Quotes
“Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.”
“Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!”
“He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.”
Source: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
“Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.”
Source: Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
Source: The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes
“Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.”
“Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Vice is but a nurse of agonies.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
Source: Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry
“In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.”
“My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.”
Source: The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?”
Source: Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry
“O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes
“...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes
Source: Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry
“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.”
Source: Selected Writings
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”
Source: The Sidneys of Penshurst
“And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.”