Daniel Defoe Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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 And Body, Lust, Literature

  'An Essay Upon Projects' (1697)

• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Thank You, Spring, Thankfulness

  Daniel Defoe (1815). “Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe”, p.125

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Fate, Men, Literature

  'Character of the late Dr S. Annesley' (1715)

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  Daniel Defoe

  Honesty, Men, Literature

  'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2

• 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cheating, Devil, Literature

  Daniel Defoe (1754). “The Political History of the Devil ... The Whole Interspers'd with Many of the Devil's Adventures ... To which is Added, a Description of the Devil's Dwelling, Vulgarly Call'd Hell. The Fifth Edition. [By Daniel Defoe.]”, p.304

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

  Daniel Defoe

  Two, Literature, Dutch

  Daniel Defoe (1788). “The True Born Englishman. A Satire. A New Edition”, p.14

• 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

  Christian, Country, Ethos

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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