Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
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He who reforms, God assists.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
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Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.