Frasi di Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe, /ˈdænjəl dɪˈfoʊ/ , è stato uno scrittore britannico. Viene frequentemente indicato come il padre del romanzo inglese.

✵ 13. Settembre 1660 – 24. Aprile 1731
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“Tutti gli uomini sarebbero dei tiranni se potessero.”

da The Kentish Petition, 1712-1713

Daniel Defoe Frasi e Citazioni

“La carità comincia a casa propria.”

Variante: Molta carità comincia col vizio.
Origine: Lady Roxana, p. 22

“Ero nato demolitore di me stesso.”

Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe: Frasi in inglese

“From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.”

Pt. I, l. 132.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“It is never too late to be wise.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 12, A Cave Retreat.

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

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Variante: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

“Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.”

Pt. I, l. 374.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”

The Life and Adventures of http://books.google.com/books?id=IZ9CAAAAYAAJ&q=%22better+to+have+a+Lyon+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Sheep+than+a+Sheep+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Lyons%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage Mrs. Christian Davies (1741)

“Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
Contesto: I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that He has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

“We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Origine: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 10, Tames Goats.

“Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Origine: Robinson Crusoe

“All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Origine: Robinson Crusoe

“I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.”

Daniel Defoe libro Moll Flanders

Origine: Moll Flanders

“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Origine: Robinson Crusoe

“Misfortunes seldom come alone.”

Daniel Defoe libro Lady Roxana

Roxana

“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.”

Pt. I, l. 360-363.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“My man Friday.”

First appears in Ch. 14, A Dream Realized.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)

“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

Pt. II, l. 299.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“Wherever 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.”

Pt. I, l. 1. Compare: "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, section 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!”

Daniel Defoe libro The Shortest Way with the Dissenters

The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).

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