Aphra Behn Quotes

The soft, unhappy sex.

Since Man with that inconstancy was born, To love the absent, and the present scorn. Why do we deck, why do we dress For such a short liv’d happiness?

And though she had some decays in the face, she had none in her sense and wit.

Simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress.

They represented to me an absolute idea of the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour !

Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone to-morrow.

A brave world, Sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Come away; poverty’s catching.