List of Aphra Behn Quotes

You May Make Love In Dancing As Well As Sitting.

Tis Love Alone Can Make Our Fetters Please.

Here Lies A Proof That Wit Can Never Be Defence Enough Against Mortality

I Value Fame As Much As If I Had Been Born A Hero.

No Friend To Love Like A Long Voyage At Sea.

'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!

Come Away; Poverty's Catching.

Affectation Hath Always Had A Greater Share Both In The Action And Discourse Of Men Than Truth And Judgment Have.

Sure, I Rose The Wrong Way Today, I Have Had Such Damn'd Ill Luck Every Way.

Women In London Are Like The Rich Silks; They Are Out Of Fashion A Great While Before They Wear Out.

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.

A Brave World, Sir, Full Of Religion, Knavery, And Change: We Shall Shortly See Better Days.

Love Ceases To Be A Pleasure, When It Ceases To Be A Secret.

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.

Nothing Is More Capable Of Troubling Our Reason, And Consuming Our Health, Than Secret Notions Of Jealousy In Solitude.

Each Moment Of A Happy Lover's Hour Is Worth An Age Of Dull And Common Life.

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.

Where There Is No Novelty, There Can Be No Curiosity.

Variety Is The Soul Of Pleasure.

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.

That Perfect Tranquillity Of Life, Which Is Nowhere To Be Found But In Retreat, A Faithful Friend And A Good Library.