Best Quotes by Aphra Behn (Top 10)

  1. That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
  2. There is no sinner like a young saint.
  3. 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.
  4. Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
  5. Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
  6. Variety is the soul of pleasure.
  7. Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
  8. Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
  9. 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.
  10. Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

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