Matthew Prior Quotes

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

Anger, Heart, Hard

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

End, Two, Quarrel

They talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior

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

Talk, Remarkable, Tis

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

Blind, Virtue, Faults

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

Talk, Drink, Taste

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

Night, Last, Yesterday

For hope is but a dream for those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Hope, Dream, Wake

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

Beauty, Virtue, Divine

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior

Hope, Dream, Wake

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Dreams, Hopes, Wake

The ends must justify the means.
Matthew Prior

Means, Ends, Justify

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

Astray, Fastest, Furthest

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 21, 1664

Died: September 18, 1721

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