Daniel Defoe Quotes

The vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ~ Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares. ~ Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear. ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. ~ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe