"Moll Flanders" Quotes

The life of a thief is not only wretched in its prospect, but abominable in its practice.

We are not to judge of the truth of a proposition by the readiness of people to believe it.

We live in a world that is full of variety, and yet is a sort of consistent, uniform thing.

I was now in the height of my prosperity, and the world never appeared more charming.

Our own misfortunes are the most afflicting to us.

My good mother's care to breed me up a little gentlewoman was her ruin.

I began to see that there was more beauty in the world than I had ever thought.

I was a woman, and had all the weakness of that sex about me.

The greatest misfortunes are those which never come.

I had a strange curiosity to see the world, and to see what the world could do for a woman.