Matthew Prior quotes

Born
21 July 1664, England.

Died
18 September 1721.

Occupation
Poet.

Matthew Prior was an English poet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ends must justify the means.
– Matthew Prior