“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“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.”
Aphra Behn“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”
Aphra Behn“He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.”
Aphra Behn“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
Aphra Behn“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”
Aphra Behn“Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
Aphra Behn“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“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”
Aphra Behn“The only shame is the sin.”
Aphra Behn“All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own