Aphra Behn quotes

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. (Aphra Behn)
Variety is the soul of pleasure. View quote
Aphra Behn
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. View quote
Aphra Behn
There's no sinner like a young saint. View quote
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. View quote
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. View quote
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. View quote
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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. View quote
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...that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library... View quote
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! View quote
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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. (Aphra Behn)
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. View quote
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Come away; poverty's catching. View quote
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. View quote
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He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. View quote
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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. View quote
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Too much curiosity lost paradise. View quote
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir. View quote
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