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
dancing making-love may
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
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Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
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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.
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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 ...
names sexism dear
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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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
dream heart ashamed
'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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One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
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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.
sea long no-friends
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.