Aphra Behn Quotes about Love
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
1686 The Lover's Watch,'Four o'Clock. General Conversation'.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
"The Rover". Play by Aphra Behn, Part II, Act V, 1677.
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
1687 The Emperor of the Moon, act1, sc.1.
