Quote

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.

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
Death
Bent
Rules
Meet
Passion

More quotes by 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
The first mark of valor is defence.
Philip Sidney
Image
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
Philip Sidney
Image
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
Philip Sidney
Image
Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
Philip Sidney
Image
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
Philip Sidney
Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
Philip Sidney
Image
In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Philip Sidney
Image
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney
Image
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
Philip Sidney
Image
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
Philip Sidney
Image
O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
Philip Sidney
Image
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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