Moll Flanders Quotes

“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

“we resolve to spend the Remainder of our Years in sincere Penitence, for the wicked Lives we have lived.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

“for, give him his due, not a beggar alive knew better how to be a lord than my husband.”
― Defoe Daniel.

“No man of common-sense will value a woman the less for not giving up herself at
the first attack, or for accepting his proposal without inquiring into his person or
character;”
― Defoe Daniel.

“But how hell should become by degree so natural, and
not only tolerable, but even agreeable, is a thing unintelligible but by those who have
experienced it, as I have.”
― Defoe Daniel.