Quotes About Philip Sidney

scoffing cometh not of wisdom...

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

The perfect embodiment of the courtier-poet was a heroic nobleman born in one of the great houses of England, Penshurst Place, in 1554, and dead a mere thirty-one years later on a battlefield fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands: Sir Philip Sidney. He achieved lasting fame for giving his water bottle to another wounded soldier with the words "Thy need is greater than mine.