3 Daniel Defoe Quotes on Class

Daniel Defoe quotes on class

10. 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.

11. Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.

15. He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.