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

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

- Aphra Behn

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

- Aphra Behn

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

- Aphra Behn

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

- Aphra Behn

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

- 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…

- 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…

- Aphra Behn