Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidneywas an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 November 1554
passion bent
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
children legacy speech
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
mind needs body
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
madness said
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
courage firsts mark
The first mark of valor is defence.
mind contentment miserable
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.
greatness quality goodness
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.
moon men quality
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.
friendship benefits made
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
kings heaven world
The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.
men faults virtue
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
wise fool misery
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
beautiful ambition thinking
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
beauty lovely battle
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.