Matthew Prior

Who was Matthew Prior?

Matthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat.

Famous Quotes:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
• Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
• They talk most who have the least to say.
• Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.