Aphra Behn - Life Quotes

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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

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 shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

Aphra Behn

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.

Aphra Behn

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.

Aphra Behn

…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…

Aphra Behn