Matthew Prior Quotes

Matthew Prior
Matthew Prior
English Poet
Born: Jul 21, 1664
Died: Sep 18, 1721
Cruel End Least Paint Talk Virtue
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
Hope is but the dream of those who wake. Matthew Prior
Inspirational Hope Those Dream Wake Who
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. Matthew Prior
Virtue Faults Kind Blind Very Little
They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think. Matthew Prior
Think Drink Never Talk Always Taste Who
The ends must justify the means. Matthew Prior
Must Ends Justify Means
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. Matthew Prior
Beauty Virtue Join Divine Semblance Form Paint
And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. Matthew Prior
Say Remarkable Most Talk Least Tis Who
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
Anger Heart Obey Tyrant Those Punished Dart Cruel Thy Most How Escape Yoke Refuse Sway Fantastic Your Hard Who Amorous

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