Daniel Defoe Quotes

"All men would be tyrants if they could."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Men)

"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Spring, Thankfulness, Want)

"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Will)

"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Covetousness, Evil, Poverty)

"He that is rich is wise."
- Daniel Defoe

"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Trouble)

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Eyes, Justice, Man, Party)

"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Men, Nature, Blood)

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Knave, Man, Necessity)

"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Men)

"'Tis no sin to cheat the devil."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Devil, Sin)

"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Necessity, Vice)

"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
(Related: Soul, Body, Will)

"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
(Related: Women, Thought, Christian, Country, Learning, World)

"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: First, Hell, President, Pride)