Robinson crusoe Quotes

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

— Walter Lippmann

“every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.”

— Bryce Courtenay

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

— Li Keqiang

“Even with Las Vegas giddy around me I felt as alone as Robinson Crusoe.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

— Kevin Young

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

— Richard Matheson

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me…

— Ariel Levy

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a…

— William Baziotes

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and…

— Samuel Johnson

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote…

— Henning Mankell

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through…

— Carlos Fuentes

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher…

— Paul Theroux

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'…

— J. G. Ballard

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,'…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined…

— Charles Dickens

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and…

— W. H. Auden

“...and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or…

— Daniel Defoe

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of…

— Gilbert Ryle

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote…

— Henning Mankell

Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or…

— Will Cuppy

Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range…

— William Golding

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon…

— B. C. Forbes

“You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that…

— Wilkie Collins

“Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for…

— Daniel Defoe

The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn…

— Cameron West

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to…

— Amor Towles

“I came to view the world as a word puzzle and, with no special aptitude I can name, fixed on the whys…

— Alexander Theroux

“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his…

— Mark Twain

“If one has been absent for decades from a place that one once held dear, the wise would generally counsel that one…

— Amor Towles

“The novels of Daniel Defoe are fundamental to eighteenth-century ways of thinking. They range from the quasi-factual A Journal of the Plague…

— Ronald Carter

I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the…

— Dorothy Allison

“All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers.…

— Richard Matheson

“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that…

— Arthur Ransome

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious…

— James Joyce

“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the…

— Daniel Defoe

And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal…

— Sophie Scholl