Aphra Behn
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.Collection: Jealousy
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.Collection: Age
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.Collection: Love
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.Collection: Money
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.Collection: Age
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.Collection: Faith
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.Collection: Learning
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
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.Collection: Sex
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.Collection: Curiosity
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.Collection: Soul
Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.Collection: Death
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Real
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.Collection: Kings
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.Collection: Time
Jealousy, the old worm that bites.Collection: Jealousy
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.Collection: Return
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.Collection: Sea
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.Collection: Men
... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.Collection: Quality
Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.Collection: Cold
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.Collection: Brave
Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Wise
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.Collection: Ass
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!Collection: Love
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.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Night
Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.Collection: Rose
Come away; poverty's catching.Collection: Poverty
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.Collection: Men
'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!Collection: Dream
I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.Collection: Hero
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against MortalityCollection: Lying
Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.Collection: Marriage
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.Collection: Dancing
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.Collection: Reading
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.Collection: Romance