68 Quotes by Aphra Behn

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

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

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

Come away; poverty’s catching.

Dear me no Dears, Sir...

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

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if ’twere the grand affair of humane life.