More - Daniel Defoe Quotes

In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled

Daniel Defoe

 

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.

Daniel Defoe

 

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

Daniel Defoe

 

He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters

Daniel Defoe

 

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Daniel Defoe

 English Journalist

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

Daniel Defoe

 

The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildings are surprising both for strength, for beauty, and for height...

Daniel Defoe

 

They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis

Daniel Defoe

 

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

 Army

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Daniel Defoe

 Churches