189 Quotes by Daniel Defoe

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

In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.

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.

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

The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildings are surprising both for strength, for beauty, and for height...

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

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

All men would be tyrants if they could.