Author: Aphra Behn

Quotes

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

- Aphra Behn

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

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

- Aphra Behn

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

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

- Aphra Behn

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

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

- Aphra Behn

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

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

- Aphra Behn

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

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