Quote

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Philip Sidney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Away
Murmur
Slide
Brooks
Slides
Shallow
Silent
Deep
Silence

More quotes by Philip Sidney

Image
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Philip Sidney
Image
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
Philip Sidney
Image
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
Philip Sidney
Image
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
Philip Sidney
Image
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Philip Sidney
Image
As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
Philip Sidney
Image
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Philip Sidney
Image
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Philip Sidney
Image
O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
Philip Sidney
Image
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
Philip Sidney
Image
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
Philip Sidney
Image
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Philip Sidney
Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
Philip Sidney
Image
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
Philip Sidney
Image
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
Philip Sidney