Quotes by Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn

English playwright, poet and translator

Alive from: 1640-1689

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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

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

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

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  Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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

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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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  There is no sinner like a young saint.