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Argument & Debate
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
-Matthew Prior
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Boredom
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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
-Matthew Prior
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Conversation
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They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
-Matthew Prior
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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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
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Doctors
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Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
-Matthew Prior
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Goals
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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
-Matthew Prior
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Hope
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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
-Matthew Prior
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Love
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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
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Machiavellianism
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The ends must justify the means.
-Matthew Prior
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Marriage
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
-Matthew Prior
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Singing
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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
-Matthew Prior
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Speeches (oratory)
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They talk most who have the least to say.
-Matthew Prior
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Tact, Tactfulness
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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
-Matthew Prior
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Books by and about Matthew Prior