Quote

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

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
Praiseworthy
Praised
Worthy
Praise
Happiness
Great

More quotes by Philip Sidney

Image
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
Philip Sidney
Image
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
Philip Sidney
Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
Philip Sidney
Image
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
Philip Sidney
Image
My true love hath my heart, and I have his
Philip Sidney
Image
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.
Philip Sidney
Image
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Philip Sidney
Image
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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
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.
Philip Sidney
Image
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
Philip Sidney
Image
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
Philip Sidney
Image
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
Philip Sidney
Image
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Philip Sidney
Image
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
Philip Sidney
Image
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
Philip Sidney
Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
Philip Sidney