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