Aphra Behn

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Aphra Behn , nee Aphra Johnston (c. 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration, and considered to be one of the first English professional woman writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British literature.

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• A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
  • The Roundheads (1677)

• Variety is the soul of pleasure.
  • The Rover, Part II, Act I (1680)

• Come away; poverty's catching.
  • The Rover, Part II, Act I (1680)

• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
  • The Rover, Part II, Act IIII, sc. i (1680)

• Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
  • The Lucky Chance, Act IV (1686-1687)

• Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
  • The Emperor of the Moon, Act I, sc. i (1687)

Attributed

• Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

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

• Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

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

• One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

• Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir.

• That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

• There is no sinner like a young saint.

External links

• Works by Aphra Behn at Project Gutenberg

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