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
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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
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Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
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Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
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affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
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Dear me no Dears, Sir ...
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... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
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'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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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.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality