Daniel Defoe Quotes

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

Head, Lion, Army

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, Diamond

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

Spring, Appeared

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

Two, Drink, Families

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Daniel Defoe

Cheat, Devil, Sin

All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe

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

Evil, Poverty, Worst

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

Women, Learning, Thought

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

Justice, Eyes, Innocent

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

Good, Men, Best

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

Door, Necessity, Vice

He that is rich is wise.
Daniel Defoe

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

Trouble, Troubled, Doubled

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

Nature, Men, Blood

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe

Honest, Makes, Necessity

Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Daniel Defoe

Hell, Pride, President

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: 1660

Died: 1731

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