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Quotes by Aphra Behn

Come away; poverty's catching.
– Aphra Behn
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
– Aphra Behn
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
– Aphra Behn
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
– Aphra Behn
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
– Aphra Behn
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
– Aphra Behn
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
– Aphra Behn
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
– Aphra Behn
Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir.
– Aphra Behn
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
– Aphra Behn
There is no sinner like a young saint.
– Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
– Aphra Behn
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
– Aphra Behn