Quotes by : Daniel Defoe

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized....

I added, that whoever the woman was that had an estate, and would give it up to be the slave of a great....

In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust....

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found upon....

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has....

...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind,....

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and....

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.....

I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us....

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time,....