Top 25 Quotes by Philip Sidney of 185 - Page 4

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

Desire, Impossible, Unlawful

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.17

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

Philip Sidney

Pain, Honor, World

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Philip Sidney

Kindness, Gains, Courtesy

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.106

With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!

Philip Sidney

Moon, Sky, Faces

Astrophel and Stella sonnet 31 (1591)

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

Philip Sidney

Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.54

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Philip Sidney

Hate, Ambition, Like Love

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.81

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

Philip Sidney

Sweet, Nature, Solitude

Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Philip Sidney

Men, Vanity, May

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.115

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Philip Sidney

Fear, Past, Men

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

Philip Sidney

Comfort, Shame, Bounds

Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.123

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

Philip Sidney

Happiness, Great Happiness, Praiseworthy

"Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Philip Sidney

Perfection, Wit, Knows

Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”

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

Philip Sidney

Passion, Bent

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.87

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Philip Sidney

Doubt, Suspicion, Condemning

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Philip Sidney

Evil, Natural

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

Thinking nurseth thinking.

Philip Sidney

Thinking

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.12

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Philip Sidney

Sports, Warrior, Flirting

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Philip Sidney

Love, Safe, Poverty

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.162

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

Philip Sidney

Love, Mourning, Bells

Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). “The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes”, p.197

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

Philip Sidney

Moon, Men, Quality

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

Philip Sidney

Sea, Law, Ignorant

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Philip Sidney

Foundation, Fuel, Magnificence

Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.14

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

Philip Sidney

Sweet, Heart, Gentleness

Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

Philip Sidney

Heart, Eye, Her Beauty

Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.4