Philip Sidney Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

  Philip Sidney

  Mind, Virtue, Hiding

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.22

• To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

  Philip Sidney

  Inspirational, Real, Ambition

• I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

  Philip Sidney

  Likes, Virtue, Ill

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Virtue, Pedigree

• In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

  Philip Sidney

  Virtue

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

• There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

  Philip Sidney

  Character, Men, Evil

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

• As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

  Philip Sidney

  Heaven, World, Virtue

• It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

  Philip Sidney

  Education, Keys, Hands

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.178

• Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
  Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

  Philip Sidney

  Lovers, Virtue, Scorn

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.180, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• 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

• Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Faults, Virtue

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25

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

  Philip Sidney

  Virtue, Servant, Willing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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