Daniel Defoe Quotes

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

» Pride the first peer and president of hell.

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

» Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

» He that is rich is wise.

» All men would be tyrants if they could.

» 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

» 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.

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

» 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.

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