Aphra Behn Quotes

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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.

  Aphra Behn

  Perfect, Faithful, Library

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.2628, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Aphra Behn

  Sex, Privilege, Poet

  Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Variety is the soul of pleasure.

  Aphra Behn

  Soul, Pleasure, Variety

  The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7

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• Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

  Aphra Behn

  Curiosity, Novelty

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.91, 谷月社

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

  Aphra Behn

  Jealousy, Solitude, Secret

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.169, 谷月社

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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.

  Aphra Behn

  Soul, Mind, World

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit,
  And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

  Aphra Behn

  Women's Beauty, Wit, Submit

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

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Positive, Birthday

  Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

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• There is no sinner like a young saint.

  Aphra Behn

  Children, Saint, Young

  Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

  Aphra Behn

  Money, Language, Speak

  1678 The Rover, pt.2, act 3, sc.1.

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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.

  Aphra Behn

  Real, Passion, Love Is

  Aphra Behn (2009). “Oroonoko and Other Writings”, p.75, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Aphra Behn

  Death, Gone, Today

  1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.

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• Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

  Aphra Behn

  Kings, Law, Ems

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.2843, Delphi Classics

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

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Secret, Pleasure

  1686 The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.

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• Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

  Aphra Behn

  Time, Ems, Mediums

  Aphra Behn (1871). “The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...”, p.125

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

  Aphra Behn

  Love, Age, Hours

  "The Rover". Play by Aphra Behn, Part II, Act V, 1677.

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• Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

  Aphra Behn

  Jealousy, Worms, Bites

  Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

  Aphra Behn

  Return, Reputation

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.215, 谷月社

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• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  Aphra Behn

  Sea, Long, No Friends

  Aphra Behn, John Philip Kemble (1790). “Love in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble from Mrs. Behn's Rover [i.e. from the first part].”, p.8

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• God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

  Aphra Behn

  Men, Evil, Good Man

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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

  Quality, Three, World

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.1382, Delphi Classics

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• Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

  Aphra Behn

  Cold, Diets

  Aphra Behn (1871). “The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...”, p.219

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

  Aphra Behn

  Brave, Knavery, World

  1682 The Roundheads, act1, sc.1.

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• Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

  Aphra Behn

  Lying, Enough, Mortality

  Aphra Behn (2014). “The Rover: Revised edition”, p.11, A&C Black

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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.

  Aphra Behn

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.273, Delphi Classics

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