Quotes by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

English writer

Lived from: 1660 - 1731

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

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  • All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
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  • All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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  • And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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  • It is never too late to be wise.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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  • Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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  • Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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  • Necessity makes a honest man a knave.
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  • Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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  • Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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  • The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
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  • Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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  • We lov'd the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
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  • Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
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What are the most famous quotes from Daniel Defoe?

The two most famous quotes from Daniel Defoe are:

  • "All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."
  • "All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

When did Daniel Defoe live?

Daniel Defoe was born in 1660 and died in the year 1731.