The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe Quotes
1660–1731 England
Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
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- Satirists
Also known as: Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
57 quotes
'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
A System of Magick (1726)
The True-Born Englishman (1701)
Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could.
The Kentish Petition (1701)
It is never too late to be wise.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
An Essay Upon Projects (1697)
The art of war, which I take to be the highest perfection of human knowledge.
The History of Projects (1697)
A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation.
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly (1697)
The History of Projects (1697)
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
The History of Projects (1697)
In trouble to be troubled
Is to have your trouble doubled.
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
That heterogeneous thing, an Englishman.
The True-Born Englishman (1701)
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702)
The grand contention's plainly to be seen,
To get some men put out, and some put in.
The True-Born Englishman (1701)
No panegyric needs their praise record;
An Englishman ne'er wants his own good word.
The True-Born Englishman (1701)
Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise;
But Englishmen do all restraint despise.
The True-Born Englishman (1701)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Defoe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.