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
motivational education stay-strong
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
natural courtesy made
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
bravery quiet
True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
warrants my-own conscience
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
jewels ears needs
The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.
poison manhood
Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
affection
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
veterans-day spring roots
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
kindness gains courtesy
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
madness said
Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
vain profanity betray
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
guests
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
kings heaven world
The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.
affirm ancient carried cause drawn gently human industry learned partly poet ready since strength
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.