Creative Quotations from Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Aphra Behn
(1640-1689) born on Jul 10

English "playwright, poet". "She was the first English woman to support herself by writing; most popular play was "The Rover," 1677."

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

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

"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret."

"Love's a thin diet, nor will keep out cold."

"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 you shall hear no more of me."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Willmore, in "The Rover," act 1, sc. 2, 1677."
R:	""The Lucky Chance," IV, 1686."
A:	""The Lover's Watch," "Four O'Clock," 1686."
N:	""The Lucky Chance," 1686."
K:	""The Lucky Chance," Preface, 1686."