Famous Quotes / Matthew Prior
15 Quotations by Matthew Prior
- 1. Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
- 2. Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
- 3. Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
- 4. Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange ...
- 5. For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
- 6. Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
- 7. Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
- 8. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
- 9. Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
- 10. The ends must justify the means.
- 11. They always talk who never think.
- 12. They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
- 13. They talk most who have the least to say.
- 14. To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S ...
- 15. Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.