Crusoe Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you… — Robin Hobb
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind… — Gilbert Ryle
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could… — Wladyslaw Szpilman
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page… — Henning Mankell
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — Walter Lippmann
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? — Samuel Johnson
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry… — Daniel Radcliffe
I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the… — Audrey Niffenegger
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,… — Carlos Fuentes
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is… — Sophie Scholl
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the… — Dorothy Allison
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look… — James Joyce
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had… — John Banville
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. — Richard Matheson
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of… — Paul Theroux
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe. — Li Keqiang

Who Wrote These Crusoe Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 20 Crusoe Quotes as follows: