Sir Philip Sidney Quotes

"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
-Sir Philip Sidney in Knowledge quotes.

"No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue."
-Sir Philip Sidney in Gossip quotes.

"Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact."
-Sir Philip Sidney in Animals quotes.

"All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts."
-Sir Philip Sidney in Church quotes.

"If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it."
-Sir Philip Sidney in Work quotes.

"In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."
-Sir Philip Sidney in God quotes.

"Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude."
-Sir Philip Sidney