Daniel Defoe Quotes

Most popular Daniel Defoe Quotes

Pleasure is a thief to business. - Daniel Defoe quote.
Pleasure is a thief to business.
— Daniel Defoe The Complete English Tradesman

pleasure

His lazy, long, lascivious reign. - Daniel Defoe quote.
His lazy, long, lascivious reign.
— Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman
In trouble to be troubled,
Is to have your trouble doubled. - Daniel Defoe quote.
In trouble to be troubled,
Is to have your trouble doubled.
— Daniel Defoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

trouble

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. - Daniel Defoe quote.
And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
— Daniel Defoe The True-Born Englishman

tyranny

Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men wou'd be tyrants if they cou'd. - Daniel Defoe quote.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men wou'd be tyrants if they cou'd.
— Daniel Defoe

tyranny

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for each man is innocent in his own eyes. - Daniel Defoe quote.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for each man is innocent in his own eyes.
— Daniel Defoe

self-esteem

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. - Daniel Defoe quote.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
— Daniel Defoe The Shortest Way with Dissenters

justice

I hear much of Peoples calling out to punish the Guilty; but very few are concerned to clear the Innocent. - Daniel Defoe quote.
I hear much of Peoples calling out to punish the Guilty; but very few are concerned to clear the Innocent.
— Daniel Defoe

crime