Aphra Behn Quotes

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn

Love, Life, Age

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn

Love, Secret, Pleasure

Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn

Soul, Pleasure, Variety

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

Faith, Today, Tomorrow

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

Jealousy, Health, Nothing

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

Life, Good, Friend

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

Learning, Nothing, Knew

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn

Money, Understand, Sense

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

Love, Age, Living

There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra Behn

Young, Sinner, Saint

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: 1640

Died: April 16, 1689

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