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15 Aphra Behn Quotes

Aphra Behn shares witty, romantic thoughts on love and life that feel like a playful, daring whisper.

Aphra Behn quotes

  1. No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

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  2. There's no sinner like a young saint.

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

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  4. Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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  5. Come away; poverty's catching.

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  6. Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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