Quotes from Aphra Behn

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

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

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

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

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

that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library

Come away; poverty's catching.

Oh, I am arm'd with more than complete steel, The justice of my quarrel.

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

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.

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

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

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

Beauty unadorned.

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

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

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

WILLMORE: Nay, if we part so, let me die like a Bird upon a Bough, at the Sheriff's Charge. By Heaven, both the Indies shall not buy thee from me. I adore thy Humour and will marry thee, and we are so of one Humour, it must be a Bargain - give me thy Hand - [Kisses her hand.] And now let the blind ones (Love and Fortune) do their worst.

A man of wit could not be a knave or villain.

T]he Pictures of the Pen shall outlast those of the Pencil, and even Worlds themselves.

This fellow has a glimpse of profundity.