Matthew Prior Quotes

• Matthew Prior / Poet

The ends must justify the means.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

They talk most who have the least to say.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

• Matthew Prior / Poet

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.