Quotes by Matthew Prior

• Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
• They talk most who have the least to say.
• They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.
• It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
• Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
• For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
• For hope is but a dream for those that wake.
• 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.
• Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
• Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
• And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
• Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
• The ends must justify the means.