221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

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

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.