Matthew Prior quotes Born21 July 1664, England.Died18 September 1721.OccupationPoet. 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