221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

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.

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

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