Daniel Defoe Quotes

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

From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. - Daniel Defoe

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

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

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

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

All men would be tyrants if they could. - Daniel Defoe

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