221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

They love indeed who quake to say they love.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

Great is not great to the greater.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.