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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way. — Aphra Behn

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. — Aphra Behn

There is no sinner like a young saint. — Aphra Behn

For thou hast made a very fiend of me, and I have hell within. — Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ... — Aphra Behn

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir. — Aphra Behn

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero. — Aphra Behn

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. — Aphra Behn

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity. — Aphra Behn

He knew almost as much as if he had read much. — Aphra Behn

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. — Aphra Behn

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit,
And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? — Aphra Behn

He that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation. — Aphra Behn

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ... — Aphra Behn

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. — Aphra Behn

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. — Virginia Woolf

For now that Aphra Behn had done it, girls could go to their parents and say, You need not give me an allowance; I can make money by my pen. — Virginia Woolf

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. — Aphra Behn

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. — Aphra Behn

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. — Aphra Behn

But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern. — Aphra Behn

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please. — Aphra Behn

Jealousy, the old worm that bites. — Aphra Behn

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth. — Harry Behn

Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable. — Harry Behn

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! — Aphra Behn

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out. — Aphra Behn

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ... — Aphra Behn

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold. — Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. — Aphra Behn

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ... — Aphra Behn

A man of wit could not be a knave or villain. — Aphra Behn

Variety is the soul of pleasure. — Aphra Behn

But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern. — Aphra Behn

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. — Aphra Behn

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting. — Aphra Behn

Come away; poverty's catching. — Aphra Behn

Possessed with a thousand thoughts of past joys — Aphra Behn