Aphra Behn famous quotes

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
-- Aphra Behn

#Perfect #Faithful #Library

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
-- Aphra Behn

#Love #Birthday #Positive

Variety is the soul of pleasure.
-- Aphra Behn

#Soul #Pleasure #Variety

There is no sinner like a young saint.
-- Aphra Behn

#Children #Saint #Young

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
-- Aphra Behn

#Funny Love #Secret #Pleasure

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.
-- Aphra Behn

#Soul #Mind #World

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
-- Aphra Behn

#Jealousy #Solitude #Secret

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
-- Aphra Behn

#Money #Language #Speak

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
-- Aphra Behn

#Wit #Submit

affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
-- Aphra Behn

#Men #Action #Share

time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
-- Aphra Behn

#Time #Ems #Mediums

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.
-- Aphra Behn

#Cold

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ...
-- Aphra Behn

#Kings #Law #Ems

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...
-- Aphra Behn

#Names #Sexism #Dear

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
-- Aphra Behn

#Wise #Men #Thinking

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
-- Aphra Behn

#Quality #Three #World

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
-- Aphra Behn

#Men #Evil #Good Man

'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!
-- Aphra Behn

#Dream #Heart #Ashamed

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
-- Aphra Behn

#Love #Love Is #Age

As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
-- Aphra Behn

#Real #Passion #Love Is

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
-- Aphra Behn

#Lying #Enough #Mortality

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
-- Aphra Behn

#Return #Reputation

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
-- Aphra Behn

#Love #Crush #Dear

Come away; poverty's catching.
-- Aphra Behn

#Poverty #Catching

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
-- Aphra Behn

#Rose #Luck #Today

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
-- Aphra Behn

#Death #Gone #Today

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
-- Aphra Behn

#Fashion #Women #London

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.
-- Aphra Behn

#Night #Light #Steps

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.
-- Aphra Behn

#Marriage #Please #Alone In Love

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
-- Aphra Behn

#Ass #Flatterer

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
-- Aphra Behn

#Brave #Knavery #World

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
-- Aphra Behn

#Jealousy #Worms

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
-- Aphra Behn

#Learning #Spokes #Bards

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
-- Aphra Behn

#Sex #Privilege #Poet

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
-- Aphra Behn

#Curiosity #Novelty

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
-- Aphra Behn

#Sea #Long #No Friends