The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719)
My island was now peopled, and I thought my self very rich in subjects; and it was a merry
reflection which I frequently made, how like a king I looked.
‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719)
It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the
print of a man’s naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like
one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719)
My man Friday.
‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719)
In trouble to be troubled
Is to have your trouble doubled.
‘The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe’ (1719)
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
‘The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe’ (1720) ch. 2
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)
We loved the doctrine for the teacher’s sake.
‘Character of the late Dr S. Annesley’ (1715)
Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes.
‘A Hymn to the Pillory’ (1703) l. 29
Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could.
‘The Kentish Petition’ (1712-13) addenda l. 11
Fools out of favour grudge at knaves in place.
‘The True-Born Englishman’ (1701) introduction, l. 7
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.
‘The True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 1.
In their religion they are so uneven,
That each one goes his own by-way to heaven.
‘The True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 104
From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
‘The True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 132
Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English.