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No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
— Daniel Defoe
![Defoe Quotes By Jermain Defoe: I am still young and being the [England]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/defoe-quotes-by-jermain-defoe-885634.jpg "Defoe Quotes By Jermain Defoe: I am still young and being the [England]")
I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.
— Jermain Defoe
I rather wished for their ruin, than studied to avoid it.
— Daniel Defoe
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
— Daniel Defoe
I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.
— Jermain Defoe
And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman
— Daniel Defoe
You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
— Jermain Defoe
Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.
— Martin Jol
I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.
— Jermain Defoe
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised
— Daniel Defoe
I love scoring - even in training.
— Jermain Defoe
I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.
— Jermain Defoe
Pleasure is a thief to business.
— Daniel Defoe
She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
— Daniel Defoe
Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and he shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
— Daniel Defoe
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
— Daniel Defoe
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
— Daniel Defoe
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
— Daniel Defoe
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
— Jermain Defoe
When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.
— Jermain Defoe
The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.
— Jermain Defoe
Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky.
— Daniel Defoe
It is never too late to be wise.
— Daniel Defoe
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
— Daniel Defoe
Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
— Daniel Defoe
The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.
— Jermain Defoe
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
— Daniel Defoe
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.
— Daniel Defoe
Friends are good,good, if well chosen. — Daniel Defoe
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
— Daniel Defoe
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
The Revenge of Adam Defoe
— Evgeny Levin
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
— Daniel Defoe
miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and
— Daniel Defoe
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
— Daniel Defoe
walked about a furlong
— Daniel Defoe
Actions receive their tincture from the times,And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.
— Gideon Defoe
I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.
— Jermain Defoe
When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.
— Jermain Defoe
No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
— Daniel Defoe
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
— Daniel Defoe
Misfortunes seldom come alone.
— Daniel Defoe
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.
— Daniel Defoe
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
— Daniel Defoe
Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams
— David McCullough
If God much strong, much might, as the devil, why God not kill the devil, so make him no more wicked?
— Daniel Defoe
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[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
— Daniel Defoe
If you're good to your body, your body's good to you.
— Jermain Defoe
I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
— Jermain Defoe
There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
— Jermain Defoe
With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.
— Gideon Defoe
It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
— Daniel Defoe
He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.
— Daniel Defoe
I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.
— Jermain Defoe
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
— Daniel Defoe
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
— Daniel Defoe
And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
— Daniel Defoe
I don't know about anyone else, but if I had problems or issues, maybe I wouldn't feel as comfortable talking about them in a group.
— Jermain Defoe
He that is rich is wise.
— Daniel Defoe
I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.
— Jermain Defoe
