Frases de Daniel Defoe

Daniel Foe, más conocido por su seudónimo Daniel Defoe [1]​ fue un escritor, periodista y panfletista inglés, mundialmente conocido por su novela Robinson Crusoe. Defoe es importante por ser uno de los primeros cultivadores de la novela, género literario que se popularizó en Inglaterra y también recibió el título de padre de todos los novelistas ingleses.[2]​ A Defoe se le considera pionero de la prensa económica.[3]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 13. septiembre 1660 – 24. abril 1731
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Frases célebres de Daniel Defoe

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Frases de hombres de Daniel Defoe

Frases de vida de Daniel Defoe

“No hay en la vida condición tan miserable en que no exista algo positivo o negativo que haya de mirarse como un favor de la Providencia.”

Robinson Crusoe
Fuente: Citado en Gázquez, Francisco. El libro de las crisis. Sabiduría perenne para náufragos. Editorial Corona Borealis, 2015. ISBN 9788492635214, p. 5.

Daniel Defoe Frases y Citas

“Cuando más grande es vuestra gloria, más cerca estáis de vuestra declinación.”

Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros, S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4, p. 141.

“Nunca es demasiado tarde para ser sabio.”

Fuente (en inglés): La vida y aventuras de Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe). Daniel Defoe. Editorial W. Baynes and son; York, Wilson and sons, 1824. Página 161. https://books.google.es/books?id=k_LPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA161&dq=It+is+never+too+late+to+be+wise.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd4qinwafgAhUu2eAKHSrdBwwQ6AEIUTAF#v=onepage&q=It%20is%20never%20too%20late%20to%20be%20wise.&f=false
Robinson Crusoe
Original: «It is never too late to be wise».

“Por lo tanto, el miedo al peligro es diez mil veces más aterrador que el peligro en sí mismo cuando es evidente a los ojos.”

Fuente (en inglés): La vida y aventuras de Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe). Daniel Defoe. Editorial W. Baynes and son; York, Wilson and sons, 1824. Página 147. https://books.google.es/books?id=k_LPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA161&dq=It+is+never+too+late+to+be+wise.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd4qinwafgAhUu2eAKHSrdBwwQ6AEIUTAF#v=onepage&q=Thus%20fear%20of%20danger%20is%20ten%20thousand%20times%20more%20terrifying%20than%20danger%20itself&f=false
Robinson Crusoe
Original: «Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes».

“Esas personas no pueden disfrutar cómodamente de lo que Dios les ha dado porque ven y codician lo que Él no les ha dado. Todos nuestros descontentos por lo que queremos parecen surgir de la falta de agradecimiento por lo que tenemos.”

Fuente (en inglés): La vida y aventuras de Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe). Daniel Defoe. Editorial W. Baynes and son; York, Wilson and sons, 1824. Página 121. https://books.google.es/books?id=k_LPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA161&dq=It+is+never+too+late+to+be+wise.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd4qinwafgAhUu2eAKHSrdBwwQ6AEIUTAF#v=onepage&q=Those%20people%20cannot%20enjoy%20comfortably%20what%20God%20has%20given%20them%20because%20they%20see%20and%20covet%20what%20He%20has%20not%20given%20them.%20All%20of%20our%20discontents%20for%20what%20we%20want%20appear%20to%20me%20to%20spring%20from%20want%20of%20thankfulness%20for%20what%20we%20have&f=false
Robinson Crusoe
Original: «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».

“Estoy dando cuenta de lo que fue, no de lo que debería o no debería ser.”

Fuente (en inglés): Moll Flanders: And History of the Devil. Volumen 3 de His Novels and miscellaneous works. Daniel Defoe. Editorial Bell and Daldy, 1871. Página 76. https://books.google.es/books?id=aLhEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=I+saw+the+Cloud,+though+I+did+not+foresee+the+Storm&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPrcWbyKfgAhW5AWMBHcuJCL8Q6AEIRjAE#v=onepage&q=I%20am%20giving%20an%20account%20of%20what%20was%2C%20not%20of%20what%20ought%20or%20ought%20not%20to%20be&f=false
Moll Flanders: And History of the Devil
Original: «I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be».

“Vi la nube, aunque no preví la tormenta.”

Fuente (en inglés): Moll Flanders: And History of the Devil. Volumen 3 de His Novels and miscellaneous works. Daniel Defoe. Editorial Bell and Daldy, 1871. Página 20. https://books.google.es/books?id=aLhEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=I+saw+the+Cloud,+though+I+did+not+foresee+the+Storm&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPrcWbyKfgAhW5AWMBHcuJCL8Q6AEIRjAE#v=onepage&q=I%20saw%20the%20Cloud%2C%20though%20I%20did%20not%20foresee%20the%20Storm&f=false
Moll Flanders: And History of the Devil
Original: «I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm».

“Escucho mucha gente clamando para castigar a los culpables, pero muy pocos están interesados en absolver a los inocentes.”

Fuente (en inglés): Una apelación al honor y la justicia, aunque sea de sus peores enemigos (An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies). Daniel Defoe. Editorial Litres, 2017. ISBN 9785040517947. https://books.google.es/books?id=M4ikDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT3&dq=I+hear+much+of+people%27s+calling+out+to+punish+the+guilty,+but+very+few+are+concerned+to+clear+the+innocent&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXg6mUy6fgAhXu1-AKHXFGD7wQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=I%20hear%20much%20of%20people's%20calling%20out%20to%20punish%20the%20guilty%2C%20but%20very%20few%20are%20concerned%20to%20clear%20the%20innocent&f=false
Original: «I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent».

“El alma es puesta en el cuerpo como un diamante en bruto, y debe ser pulida, o su brillo nunca aparecerá.”

Original: «The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear».
Fuente: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Autores Oxford University Press, TME. Editores Elizabeth M. Knowles, Angela Partington. Colaboradora Elizabeth M. Knowles. Edición revisada. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780198601739, p. 254. https://books.google.es/books?id=o6rFno1ffQoC&pg=PP274&dq=The+soul+is+placed+in+the+body+like+a+rough+diamond,+and+must+be+polished,+or+the+luster+of+it+will+never+appear&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJq_-JwqfgAhXjA2MBHYGsAogQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20soul%20is%20placed%20in%20the%20body%20like%20a%20rough%20diamond%2C%20and%20must%20be%20polished%2C%20or%20the%20luster%20of%20it%20will%20never%20appear&f=false

Daniel Defoe: Frases en inglés

“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

Fuente: 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.
Fuente: 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

Fuente: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
Contexto: 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.

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

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Fuente: Robinson Crusoe

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

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Fuente: Robinson Crusoe

“Misfortunes seldom come alone.”

Daniel Defoe libro Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

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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