Daniel Defoe Quotes

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

He that is rich is wise.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

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.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

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

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

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.