Aphra Behn Quotes

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ,
Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…

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

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

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

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

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

Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.