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
children men play
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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.
men faults virtue
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
men errors remember
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.
forgiveness revenge men
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
wise men judging
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
courage men skills
Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
strong men idols
Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.
truth simple men
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
character men evil
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.
men ancestry birth
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
men action goodness
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
past men thinking
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
men virtue pedigree
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.