Aphra Behn was a notable English dramatist and poet, born on July 10, 1640, and passing away on April 16, 1689. She is recognized as one of the first professional women writers in English literature, with a career that extended over two decades. Behn's writing includes plays, poems, and travelogues, and she is credited with bringing the comedy of manners to English drama.
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“A woman’s passion is like the tide, it stays for no man when the hour is come.”
Source: The Lucky Chance
“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)