Matthew Prior Quotes & Sayings

“They talk most who have the least to say.”

“Hope is but the dream of those who wake.”

“Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.”

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

“They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.”

“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.”

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

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

“The ends must justify the means.”

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