Aphra Behn Quotes
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Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
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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.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.
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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.
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
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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.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
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Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
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I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.
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Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.
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God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
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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.
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.
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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.
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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.
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