"Here lies a Proof that Wit can never……" — Aphra Behn
"Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality"
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28 Quotes by Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn has 28 quotes on this site.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good…
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
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Come away; poverty's catching.
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
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Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
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'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh…
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More Defence Quotes
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one of 240 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
— Michael Badnarik
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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in…
— Gerry Adams
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work…
— Russell Brand
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more…
— David Cameron
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
— Ivo Andric
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves…
— Maya Angelou
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause…
— John Foxe
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I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
— Tamim Iqbal
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