Matthew Prior Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the english poet Matthew Prior on topics like talk, taste, love

  • They talk most who have the least to say.

    — Matthew Prior on speeches
    34
  • Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

    — Matthew Prior on marriage
    10
  • Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

    — Matthew Prior on hope
    5
  • And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

    — Matthew Prior on boredom
    3
  • Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

    — Matthew Prior on goals
    3
  • They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.

    — Matthew Prior on conversation
    3
  • Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.

    — Matthew Prior on tact
    2
  • In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

    — Matthew Prior on argument
    1
  • Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

    — Matthew Prior on singing
    1
  • Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

    — Matthew Prior on dream
    0
  • 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.

    — Matthew Prior on love
    0
  • They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

    — Matthew Prior on drink
    0
  • About Matthew Prior

    Name Matthew Prior
    Quotes 16 quotations
    Nationality English
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics talk, taste, love, hope, drink
  • Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

    — Matthew Prior on doctors
    0
  • For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

    — Matthew Prior on beauty
    0
  • To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.

    — Matthew Prior on debt
    0
  • The ends must justify the means.

    — Matthew Prior on machiavellianism
    0
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    • goals
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