221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

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