Daniel Defoe Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

  Daniel Defoe

  Eye, Evil, Anxiety

  Daniel Defoe (1822). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque, where he resided twenty-eight years. With an account of his travels through various parts of the world”, p.103

• All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

  Daniel Defoe

  Evil

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner, written by himself [by D. Defoe”, p.37

• In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

  Daniel Defoe

  Mean, Doors, Evil

  Daniel Defoe (1816). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe; including an account of his shipwreck, and residence for twenty-nine years on an unknown island: the remarkable history of his deliverance; and the extraordinary circumstances which afterwards befel him in various parts of the world”, p.197

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Roots, Evil, Poverty

  'Moll Flanders' (1721)

• No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Evil, Design

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe”, p.568, e-artnow

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