Quote

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

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
Bells
Ring
Rings
Spread
Dead
Show
Shows
Love
Mourning

More quotes by Philip Sidney

Image
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
Philip Sidney
Image
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
Philip Sidney
Image
Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
Philip Sidney
Image
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
Philip Sidney
Image
True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
Philip Sidney
Image
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
Philip Sidney
Image
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Philip Sidney
Image
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
Philip Sidney
Image
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
Philip Sidney
Image
The first mark of valor is defence.
Philip Sidney
Image
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
Philip Sidney
Image
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
Philip Sidney
Image
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Philip Sidney