Daniel Defoe citations célèbres
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe: Citations en anglais
“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.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 12, A Cave Retreat.
The Education of Women (1719)
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Variante: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
Source: Moll Flanders
“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)
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)
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
Contexte: 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.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 10, Tames Goats.
“Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 6, Ill and Conscience-stricken.
“I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.”
Source: Moll Flanders
“For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe
Pt. I, l. 360-363.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
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)
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)
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 1, Start in Life.
“The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.”
Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley (1715).
The Education of Women (1719)
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).
