Quotes About Defoe

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

Thus, in addition to his double life as a spy, Defoe also led a dounle life as an economist- without realizing it, he created the central character in free market economics in his fictional work, umyet his own economic analysis clearly illustrated the limits of free market and free trade.

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the means of our greatest adversity

for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.

If I swing by the string, I shall hear the bell ring, And then there's an end of poor Jenny

very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a master of the English tongue. Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs