Philip Sidney Virtue Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.