221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

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

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

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

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?