In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Either I will find away or I will make one
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of him...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition o...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principl...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said,...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich ke...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretoken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame and to be always ready for what is gene...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Every occasion will catch the senses of the vain man and with that bridle and saddle you may ride hi...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is not good to wake a sleeping lion
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said,...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very princip...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care
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 b...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
PHILIP SIDNEY Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...
PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
PHILIP SIDNEY Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, makin...
PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care...
PHILIP SIDNEY Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
PHILIP SIDNEY With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country...
PHILIP SIDNEY ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
PHILIP SIDNEY If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry...th...
PHILIP SIDNEY It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
PHILIP SIDNEY Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart,...
PHILIP SIDNEY When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN For Gods sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and def...
SYDNEY SMITH To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
SYDNEY SMITH The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t...
SYDNEY SMITH He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go ac...
SYDNEY BRENNER Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.
SYDNEY POLLACK A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...
SYDNEY SMITH No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
SYDNEY SMITH What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
SYDNEY SMITH Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The grea...
SYDNEY SMITH Good friends are good for your health.
SYDNEY SMITH Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
SYDNEY SMITH One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all th...
SYDNEY SMITH We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into th...
SYDNEY SMITH Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn hi...
SYDNEY SMITH We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
SYDNEY SMITH The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
SYDNEY SMITH A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the ...
SYDNEY SMITH To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
SYDNEY SMILES It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t...
SYDNEY SMITH Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an...
SYDNEY SMITH It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
SYDNEY SMITH How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after ...
SYDNEY SMITH No furniture is so charming as books.
SYDNEY SMITH It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir...
SYDNEY SMITH Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo...
SYDNEY SMITH I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.
SYDNEY POLLACK Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SYDNEY HOOK I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of e...
SYDNEY SMITH He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
SYDNEY SMITH The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...
SYDNEY SMITH Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher...
SYDNEY SMITH Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SYDNEY SMITH What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
SYDNEY SMITH Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency whe...
SYDNEY SMITH Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but...
SYDNEY SMITH Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being...
SYDNEY SMITH Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our...
SYDNEY SMITH I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
SYDNEY PFIZER Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...
Be what Nature ...
SYDNEY SMITH A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g...
SYDNEY SMITH The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
SYDNEY SMILES Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
SYDNEY SMITH Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...
SYDNEY SMITH Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious...
SYDNEY SMITH Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con...
SYDNEY SMITH It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge...
SYDNEY SMITH The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ...
SYDNEY SMITH Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
SYDNEY SMITH Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f...
SYDNEY SMITH Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ...
SYDNEY SMITH A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would...
SYDNEY SMITH I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
SYDNEY SMITH Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t...
SYDNEY SMITH Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned...
SYDNEY SMITH His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes...
SYDNEY SMITH He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else...
SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not bo...
SYDNEY SMITH Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m...
SYDNEY SMITH Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
SYDNEY SMITH Gardens are a form of autobiography.
SYDNEY EDDISON He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...
SYDNEY SMITH I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I a...
SYDNEY POLLACK I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
SYDNEY WAYSER Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SYDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
SYDNEY MADWED Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all...
SYDNEY SMITH Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t...
SYDNEY POLLACK During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul...
SYDNEY BRENNER As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
SYDNEY SMITH I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glasswar...
SYDNEY BRENNER As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
SYDNEY SCHANBERG The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,...
SYDNEY POLLACK Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar...
SYDNEY POLLACK When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
SYDNEY POLLACK It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
SYDNEY POLLACK It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
SYDNEY SMITH My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex...
SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good co...
SYDNEY SMITH The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
SYDNEY SMITH All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cak...
SYDNEY SMITH You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessaril...
SYDNEY SMITH To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold ...
SYDNEY SMITH There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, ...
SYDNEY SMITH Live always in the best company when you read.
SYDNEY SMITH Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no mo...
SYDNEY SMITH Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this allia...
SYDNEY SMITH Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.
SYDNEY POLLACK Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave yo...
SYDNEY SMITH No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
SYDNEY POLLACK Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrati...
SYDNEY POLLACK At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone ...
SYDNEY POLLACK I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing...
SYDNEY POLLACK What you don't know would make a great book.
SYDNEY SMITH 'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself...
SYDNEY WAYSER At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or w...
SYDNEY POLLACK By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need ...
SYDNEY POLLACK Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
SYDNEY SMITH The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
SYDNEY POLLACK Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thi...
SYDNEY POLLACK Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of exist...
SYDNEY SMITH Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the k...
SYDNEY BRENNER I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way ...
SYDNEY POLLACK Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of we...
SYDNEY POLLACK The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of ...
SYDNEY WAYSER Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
SYDNEY POLLACK No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
SYDNEY POLLACK Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.
SYDNEY POLLACK Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would re...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the ...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn'...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brookly...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SYDNEY SMITH