Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behnwas a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 December 1640
men evil good-man
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
death today gone
Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
children saint young
There is no sinner like a young saint.
soul mind world
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.
funny-love secret pleasure
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
lying enough mortality
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
jealousy solitude secret
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
hero fame born
I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.
love age hours
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
rose luck today
Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
cold diets
Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.
quality world three
... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
kings law ems
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ...
dancing making-love may
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.