68 Quotes by Aphra Behn

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

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.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...