Daniel Defoe Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

5 Famous Quotes by Daniel Defoe
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“Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.”
Churches Quotes
Source: The True Born Englishman (pt. I, l. 1)
“Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.”
Ancestry Quotes
Source: The True-Born Englishman (part I, l. 372)
“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”
Age Quotes
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
Finance and economics Quotes
“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”
Leadership Quotes