Daniel Defoe

“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.”

— Daniel Defoe

“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who…

— Daniel Defoe

“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this…

— Daniel Defoe

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

— Daniel Defoe

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the…

— Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

— Daniel Defoe

“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this,…

— Daniel Defoe

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe

“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

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

— Daniel Defoe

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they…

— Daniel Defoe

“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by…

— Daniel Defoe

So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once…

— Daniel Defoe

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to…

— Daniel Defoe

“I stood still an hour or thereabouts without trespassing on our orders (for so long the caravan was in passing the gate),…

— Daniel Defoe

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

— Daniel Defoe

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse,…

— Daniel Defoe

“[...] and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we…

— Daniel Defoe

I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my…

— Daniel Defoe

This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued…

— Daniel Defoe

“If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in…

— Daniel Defoe

“...For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for.”

— Daniel Defoe

“It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we…

— Daniel Defoe

“In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest…

— Daniel Defoe

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

— Daniel Defoe