Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir

Quote byAphra Behn · 1640–1689

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Feigned Courtesans, Act III, sc. i (1679)..

English (original)

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

— Aphra Behn

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

Come away; poverty's catching.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.