Quotes by : Aphra Behn

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

The only shame is the sin.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light,That cheats the weary traveler by night,Though on a precipice....

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such,In....

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

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

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

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