Matthew Prior

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

— Matthew Prior

“The end must justify the means.”

— Matthew Prior

They talk most who have the least to say.

— Matthew Prior

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

— Matthew Prior

“They talk most who have least to say.”

— Matthew Prior

For hope is but a dream for those that wake.

— Matthew Prior

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

— Matthew Prior

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

— Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

— 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

“And hope is but a dream of those that wake.”

— Matthew Prior

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

— Matthew Prior

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

— Matthew Prior

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway,…

— Matthew Prior