And did with sighs their fate deplore, Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were such, In having heard, and seen too much, My grief must be as great and high, When all abandoned I shall be, Doomed to a silent destiny.

— Aphra Behn

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

— Aphra Behn

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

— Aphra Behn

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

— Aphra Behn

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

— Aphra Behn

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.

— Aphra Behn

Fillmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

— Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

— Aphra Behn

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

— Aphra Behn

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

— Aphra Behn