Quotes by Aphra Behn - Page 1

Come away; poverty's catching.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Catching
Poverty
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Pleasure
Soul
Variety
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Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Jealousy
Bites
Worms
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Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Kings
Ems
Law
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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Children
Saint
Sinner
Young
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Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Cold
Diets
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Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Marriage
Fetters
Please
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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Long
No Friends
Sea
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Ass
Flatterer
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Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Death
Gone
Today
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You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Dancing
Making Love
Sitting
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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
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Tomorrow
Sir
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I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.
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Born
Fame
Hero
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Curiosity
Novelty
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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Reputation
Return
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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Money
Language
Nations
Speak
Understand
All Nations
Sense
Speaks
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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Love
Pleasure
Secret
Ceases
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Love
Pleasure
Secret
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Love
Crush
Dear
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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Love
Age
Hours
Love Is
Living
Love Age Love Is
Hour
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Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.
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Time
Ems
Mediums
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God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Men
Evil
Good Man
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
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Enough
Lying
Mortality
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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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Birthday
Happy
Love
Positive
Smile
True Love
Age
Common
Dull
Valentines Day
Life Love Moment
Life Love Age
Lover
Each
Hour
Moment
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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Luck
Rose
Today
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He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Writ
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Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Submit
Wit
Women's Beauty
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Brave
Knavery
World
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Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
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Women
Fashion
London
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Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Men
Action
Share
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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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Faithful
Library
Perfect
Retreat
Tranquillity
Nowhere
Friend
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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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Jealousy
Capable
Consuming
Reason
Secret
Solitude
Notions
Troubling
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... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
Aphra Behn / Dramatist
Quality
Three
World
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Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
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Learning
Bards
Spokes
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Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.
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Light
Night
Steps
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'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!
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Dream
Belief
Heart
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All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
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Poet
Privilege
Sex
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As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
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Love Is
Passion
Real
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I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
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Wise
Men
Thinking
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A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.
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Mind
Soul
World
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