Matthew Prior Quotes

"They talk most who have the least to say."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Talk)

"They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Talk, Taste)

"It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: End, Quarrel)

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Dream, Hope)

"For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Beauty, Virtue)

"For hope is but a dream for those that wake."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Dream, Hope)

"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."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Anger, Heart)

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Disease, Night, Yesterday)

"Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Virtue, Blind, Faults)

"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Remarkable, Talk)

"Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way."
- Matthew Prior

"The ends must justify the means."
- Matthew Prior