Quote #3

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

More from Aphra Behn

  1. There's no sinner like a young saint.
  2. Variety is the soul of pleasure.
  3. No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
  4. Come away; poverty's catching.
  5. Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
  6. One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
  7. A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
  8. Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

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