Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behnwas a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 December 1640
real passion love-is
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
sea long no-friends
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
jealousy worms bites
Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
hero fame born
I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.
brave world knavery
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
marriage please fetters
Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.
poverty catching
Come away; poverty's catching.
jealousy solitude secret
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
money language speak
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
lying enough mortality
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
ass flatterer
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
funny-love secret pleasure
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
curiosity novelty
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
men evil good-man
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.