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.
virtue
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
poison manhood
Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
misery fortune misfortunes
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
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.
confusion matter causes
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.
kindness gains courtesy
A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
scoffing
...scoffing cometh not of wisdom...
sorrow violence firsts
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.