Aphra Behn Quotes

"Variety is the soul of pleasure."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Soul, Pleasure, Variety)

"There is no sinner like a young saint."
- Aphra Behn

"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Life, Friend)

"One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Age, Love, Living, Right, Worth)

"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Health, Jealousy, Nothing, Reason, Solitude)

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Love, Pleasure)

"Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Faith, Today, Tomorrow)

"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Age, Life, Worth)

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Money, Language, Nations, Sense)