Daniel Defoe Quotes

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that ...

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found u...

I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us...

I added, that whoever the woman was that had an estate, and would give it up to be the slave of a gr...

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of ...

...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of ma...

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we ...

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will ...

Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical ...

I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in ...

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and...

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has...

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankin...

In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust...

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titl...

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of ...