Aphra Behn Quotes

• The soft, unhappy sex.

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• Since Man with that inconstancy was born, To love the absent, and the present scorn. Why do we deck, why do we dress For such a short liv’d happiness?

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• And though she had some decays in the face, she had none in her sense and wit.

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• Simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress.

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• They represented to me an absolute idea of the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.

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

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• Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone to-morrow.

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

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• Come away; poverty’s catching.

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• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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• Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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• There is no sinner like a young saint.

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• That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

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

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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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• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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

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

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

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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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Aphra Behn (21)

Birth:	1640
Death:	16th April, 1689
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist

About

Aphra Behn was born in Harbledown near Canterbury. She was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, one of the first English professional female literary writers. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, she is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit." Little is known for certain about Behn's life except for her work as an author and as a spy for the British crown.  During the 1660s she was deployed as a political operative in the Netherlands. Facing debt and poverty Behn embarked on a writing career, producing over 19 plays, plus poetry, translation and novels.

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