Philip Sidney Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• My true love hath my heart, and I have his

  Philip Sidney

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  'The Arcadia' (1590) bk. 3

• It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

  Philip Sidney

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Nature

• Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Writing, Heart, Looks

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

• My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
  By just exchange, one for the other given;
  I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
  There never was a better bargain driven.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Heart, Missing

  'The Arcadia' (1590) bk. 3

• 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.

  Philip Sidney

  Love, Heart, Yellow

• The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

  Philip Sidney

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.23

• High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Courtesy

  "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia". Book by Philip Sidney. Book 1, 1590.

• A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Character, Noble

• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
  
  Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
  
  And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
  
  Thus, great 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.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Writing, Heart

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

• You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Exercise, Age

  Sir Philip Sidney (1929). “AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE”, p.100, CUP Archive

• 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.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Adversity, Tree

• Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Eye, Her Beauty

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.4

• The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Thinking, Foundation

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.23

• Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Heart, Gentleness

  Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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