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
love mourning bells
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
giving debt delight
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.
wisdom exercise glory
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
wisdom worthy
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
sweet heart gentleness
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.
children heart writing
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.
children letters praise
Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.
love poverty safe
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
fear my-friends disdain
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
war cruelty conquest
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
mother daughter sin
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
lying journey honor
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
inspirational real ambition
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
men virtue pedigree
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.