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Aphra Behn Quotes

Aphra Behn quotes

English Playwright July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689

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Aphra Behn quote: "Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and..."
Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy. Aphra Behn
When he came, attended by all the young soldiers of any merit, he was infinitely surprised at the beauty of this fair Queen of Night, whose face and person was so exceeding all he had ever beheld; that lovely modesty with which she received him, that softness in her look, and sighs, upon the melancholy occasion of this honour that was done by so great a man as Oroonoko, and a prince of whom she had heard such admirable things; the awfulness wherewith she received him, and the sweetness of her... Aphra Behn
WILLMORE: Nay, if we part so, let me die like a Bird upon a Bough, at the Sheriff's Charge. By Heaven, both the Indies shall not buy thee from me. I adore thy Humour and will marry thee, and we are so of one Humour, it must be a Bargain - give me thy Hand - [Kisses her hand.] And now let the blind ones (Love and Fortune) do their worst. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn quote: "One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on."
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn quote: "Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more."
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn quote: "Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn quote: "That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found..."
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. Aphra Behn
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. Aphra Behn
This old dead hero had one only daughter left of his race; a beauty that, to describe her truly, one need say only, she was female to the noble male; the beautiful black Venus to our young Mars; as charming in her person as he, and of delicate virtues. I have seen an hundred white men sighing after her, and making a thousand vows at her feet, all vain, and unsuccessful; and she was, indeed, too great for any, but a prince of her own nation to adore. Aphra Behn
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. Aphra Behn
He made her vows she should be the only woman he would possess while he lived; that no age or wrinkles should incline him to change; for her soul would be always fine, and always young; and he should have an eternal idea in his mind of the charms she now bore; and should look into his heart for that idea, when he could find it no longer in her face. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn quote: "But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums &..."
But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern. Aphra Behn
As we were coming up again, we met with some Indians of strange aspects, that is, of a larger size, and other sort of features, than those of our country. Our Indian slaves, that rowed us, asked them some questions, but they could not understand us, but showed us a long cotton string, with several knots on it, and told us, they had been coming from the mountains so many moons as there were knots. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn quote: "Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming..."
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. Aphra Behn

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