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.
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern. - Aphra Behn
Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.
- Aphra Behn
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity. - Aphra Behn
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
Variety is the soul of pleasure. - Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? - Aphra Behn
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. - Aphra Behn
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em. - Aphra Behn
Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.
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 y… - Aphra Behn
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 y…
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. - Aphra Behn
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen sh… - Aphra Behn
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen sh…
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