“A woman’s passion is like the tide, it stays for no man when the hour is come.”
Source: The Lucky Chance
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Famous Aphra Behn Quotes
“Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.”
Source: The Rover
“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
Source: The Younger Brother; Or, the Amorous Jilt
Source: The Lucky Chance
“Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.”
Source: The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...
“Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.”
Source: The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.”
“You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.”
Source: The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon
“I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.”
Source: The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
Source: 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.]
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“There is no sinner like a young saint.”
Source: Behn Five Plays
“Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality”
Source: The Rover: Revised edition
“Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.”
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
“Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!”
“Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.”
“Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.”
“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
Source: Oroonoko and Other Writings
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
Source: Love in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble from Mrs. Behn's Rover [i.e. from the first part].
Source: Behn Five Plays
Source: Plays
“Jealousy, the old worm that bites.”
Source: The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon
“A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.”
“Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)