Daniel Defoe quotes Born: 04/26/1660 Died: 04/24/1731 Country: united_kingdom

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. (Daniel Defoe) [soul & body/willpower]
• Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Daniel Defoe) [pride/president]
• He that is rich is wise. (Daniel Defoe)
• All men would be tyrants if they could. (Daniel Defoe) [men]
• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. (Daniel Defoe)
• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. (Daniel Defoe) [men/bad]
• He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters. (Daniel Defoe) [find/life/mankind]
• Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. (Daniel Defoe) [nature/blood/men]
• In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled. (Daniel Defoe)
• 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 lions. (Daniel Defoe)
• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. (Daniel Defoe) [willpower//willpower]
• They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis. (Daniel Defoe) [value/king]
• Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. (Daniel Defoe) [/eyes]
• Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Daniel Defoe) [pride/president]
• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. (Daniel Defoe) [age/youth/age]
• All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. (Daniel Defoe)
• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. (Daniel Defoe)
• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. (Daniel Defoe)
• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled. (Daniel Defoe)
• Necessity makes an honest man a knave. (Daniel Defoe)
• 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. (Daniel Defoe)

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