Quotes by Daniel Defoe
——Today we love what tomorrow we hate;today we seek what tomorrow we shun;today we desire what tomorrow we fear．
Source:Robinson Crusoe
——Fear of danger is ten thousand timesmore terrifying than danger itself．
Source:Robinson Crusoe
——As covetousness is the rootof all evil，so poverty is，Ibelieve，the worst of all snares．
Source:Moll Flanders
——The vice came in always at the door of necessity，not at the door of inclination．
Source:Moll Flanders
——All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them，and with whatworse attends them．
Source:Robinson Crusoe
——The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond，and must be polished，or the lustre of itwill never appear．
Source:An Essay upon Projects
——Necessitymakes an honestman a knave．
Source:Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
——In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled．
Source:The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
——And of all plagueswith whichmankind are curst，ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst．
Source:The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
——The height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances;and to make a calm within，under the weight of the greatest storm without．
Source:Robinson Crusoe
——Nature has left this tincture in the blood，that all men would be tyrants if they could．
Source:The History of the Kentish Petition
——Pride，the first peer，and president of Hell．
Source:The True－Born Englishman:A Satire